Affiliation:
1. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Abstract
This work presents the design, implementation and results of a research project in medical education conducted from 2007 to 2011, on the learning of some basic clinical and surgical skills in Medicine (University of Salamanca, Spain). This project has been conducted in collaboration with the Educational Research Institute of the same university. The hypothesis of the study that teaching methods based on a learning process guided by the direct practice on models, along with the modeling through an online teaching platform, produce a high level of learning, measured by using the direct observation of the behavior. The learning results are positive, although some methodological inconveniences have been found in the evaluation process, in relation with the causes of the variability between skills and evaluators.
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