Cómo mejorar el razonamiento causal y la motivación científica en la educación intelectual de los estudiantes de medicina. Utilización de nuevas tecnologías en la metodología docente

Abstract

New learning technologies are not an end in their own right, but an instrument to achieve a learning objective. Based on the ideas formulated by Abraham Flexner a century ago, our main educational objective consists of improving the scientific reasoning of medical students. To achieve this goal we reduce the amount of information given to students and put the emphasis on the causal relationships between those variables that are the foundation of physiological functions. In addition, we try to bring to students the excitement of the scientific discoveries and to give them the opportunity to work for a period of time at a lab bench. New learning technologies allow tutoring students individually, extending to a considerable number of students the education that in past times was the privilege of very few disciples.