%0 Journal Article
%T Caracterizaci¨®n de desarrollo cognitivo en estudiantes de medicina venezolanos en la Misi¨®n Barrio Adentro
%A Villegas Valverde
%A Carlos Agust¨ªn
%A Lahera S¨¢nchez
%A Tania
%J Educaci£¿3n M£¿£¿dica Superior
%D 2011
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X introduction: the implementation of a novel medical formative program is a challenge for any educational system and should be met because the universities must be on a par with the present demands of the society. there is some social debt in the field of healthcare in venezuela; therefore, a quality massive medical formation is required. in this regard, we developed a formation program in 2004 that is undergoing constant improvement and thus requires evaluation of and feedback on its results. objective: to characterize the cognitive development of the integrated community medicine students. methods: data collection was based on a student-tailored questionnaire and a key informant interview, being both instruments prepared by the author; manual data processing and results shown in text, tables and graphs. results: it was found that 75 % of the students looked for information for their homework whereas only 53.3 % succeeded. the most used method of comparison of ideas was the exchange of views with the professors (75 %). thirteen percent of the students did not match the obtained information with other people. conclusions: most of the students did not achieve the cognitive development in terms of knowledge and skills that the basic sciences¡ä problem-based method demands.
%K medical education
%K cognitive development
%K undergraduate students.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-21412011000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en