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BACKGROUND: Kahoot! is an educational tool allowing teachers to create a series of gamified tests with the aim of reinforcing educational content, thus improving the teaching-learning process. The objective of this project is to evaluate the acquisition of content through gamified tests with Kahoot! and reward cards compared to the traditional teaching methodology (contents not reinforced). METHODS: This Physiotherapy Teaching Innovation Project (PTIP) was carried out in four subjects of the Degree in Physiotherapy at the University of Jaén (Spain). The teachers responsible for each subject were instructed in the use of Kahoot! and reward cards. These teachers randomly selected the contents that were going to be reinforced with Kahoot! while the other 50% of the contents would not be reinforced. In the final exam of each subject, the results related to the reinforced contents were compared with those non-reinforced and the degree of satisfaction of the students with the experience was evaluated. RESULTS: A total of 313 students participated in this PTIP. In all subjects, we determined a significant increase in the number of correct answers in an improvement range from 7% (95% CI 3.85 to 9.38) to more than 20% (95% CI 17.61 to 26.86) in favor of the questions that alluded to reinforced content using Kahoot! compared to the non-reinforced contents. More than 90% of the participants considered the use of Kahoot! useful and motivating. Our findings showed that Kahoot! motivated more than 65% of students to study daily. CONCLUSIONS: The students obtained better academic results in the questions related to contents reinforced with tests through Kahoot! and reward cards compared to those non-reinforced, showing that this methodology can be an effective tool to promote retention and content assimilation.
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El envejecimiento activo constituye un tema de especial relevancia en una época donde la necesidad de afrontar los desafíos y oportunidades del siglo XXI han propiciado nuevas formas de entender la educación. Así, el modelo de aprendizaje basado en competencias implantado actualmente en los sistemas educativos europeos, latinoamericanos y de otras zonas debe ser considerado en todos los grupos de edad independientemente de criterios geográficos o sociodemográficos. En la legislación educativa española las competencias son definidas como las «capacidades para aplicar de forma integrada los contenidos propios de cada enseñanza y etapa educativa, con el fin de lograr la realización adecuada de actividades y la resolución eficaz de problemas complejos». Como se deduce de esta definición, el gran reto se basa en llevarlas a la práctica en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. En este sentido, se presenta el Conocimiento Tradicional (CT) como una herramienta para favorecer el diálogo, la salud intergeneracional y por consiguiente la atención a nuestros mayores desde la escuela a la universidad. Además, el encuentro entre generaciones en diferentes etapas educativas puede poner en valor la experiencia de vida de las personas mayores y el desarrollo de competencias bidireccionales fruto de esa interacción. Actualmente, el Inventario Español de los Conocimientos Tradicionales relativos a la Biodiversidad (IECTB), elaborado para dar cumplimiento a la Ley 42/2007, de 13 de diciembre, del Patrimonio Natural y de la Biodiversidad, es un punto de referencia para el trabajo en gerontología social y el desarrollo de materiales didácticos con la filosofía pedagógica planteada. (AU)
Active ageing is a subject of particular relevance at a time when the need to face the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century has led to new ways of understanding education. Thus, the competency-based learning model currently implemented in European, Latin American and other educational systems must be considered in all age groups regardless of geographic or socio-demographic criteria. In the Spanish education legislation, competences are defined as the abilities to apply the content of each stage of teaching and learning in an integrated manner, in order to attain the appropriate performance of activities and the effective resolution of complex problems. As can be deduced from this definition, the great challenge lies in putting them into practice in the teaching-learning processes. In this respect, Traditional Knowledge (TK) is presented as a tool to encourage dialogue, intergenerational health and, consequently, care for our elders from school to university. Moreover, the encounter between generations at different educational stages can enhance the life experience of older people and the development of two-way skills resulting from this interaction. Currently, the «Inventario Español de los Conocimientos Tradicionales relativos a la Biodiversidad» (IECTB) (Spanish Inventory of Traditional Knowledge related to Biodiversity), drawn up to comply with Law 42/2007 of 13 December, on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, is a reference point for the work on social gerontology and the development of teaching materials with the proposed pedagogical philosophy. (AU)
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Humans , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Information Dissemination/history , Aging , Health Sciences/education , Medicine, Traditional , GeriatricsABSTRACT
Developing effective clinical reasoning is central to health professions education. Learning by concordance (LbC) is an on-line educational strategy that makes learners practice reasoning competency in case-based clinical situations. The questions asked are similar to those professionals ask themselves in their practice and participant answers are compared to those of a reference panel. When participants answer the questions, they receive an automated feedback that is two-fold as they see (1) how the panelists respond and (2) justifications each panelist gives for their answer. This provides rich contextual knowledge about the situation, supplemented by a synthesis summarizing crucial points. As many educators in the health sciences are engaging in introducing innovative approaches, many consider building LbC learning modules. Elaborating, designing and implementing a LbC tool remain a challenge. This AMEE Guide describes the steps and elements to be considered when designing a LbC tool, drawing on examples from distinct health professions: medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, and dentistry. Specifically, the following elements will be discussed: (1) LbC theoretical underpinnings; (2) principles of LbC questioning; (3) goals of the concordance-based activity; (4) nature of reasoning tasks; (5) content/levels of complexity; (6) reference panel; (7) feedback/synthesis messages; (8) on-line learning platforms.
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Clinical Competence , Learning , Educational Measurement , Health Occupations , Humans , Problem SolvingABSTRACT
This paper presents a literature review of links between Education of Health Sciences and the new looks from the public health in context of paradigmatic rupture processes. It is a result of the literature review carried out from the process of the skillsbased curriculum transformation at the University of Carabobo, in its Faculty of Health Sciences and Public Health Department - Aragua campus. It assumes a chronological sequence and context analysis of power relations hegemony - against hegemony. The argumentative debate context of the biomedical model - hegemonic Cartesian, with its dialectical complementarity: Clinic - Preventivist Model and the emergence of alternative looks from the public health and social medicine - collective health, among others. The reader is confronted against paradigmatic rupture processes, the human civilization crisis, their alternative and social rises that are presented.
El presente artículo expone una revisión documental de los nexos de la Educación en las Ciencias de la Salud y de las nuevas miradas desde la Salud Publica en contexto de procesos de ruptura paradigmática. Es producto de parte de la revisión de la literatura efectuada, desde el proceso de transformación curricular por competencias en la Universidad de Carabobo, en su Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y su Departamento de Salud Pública de la Sede Aragua. Asume una secuencia cronológica y análisis de contexto de las relaciones de poder hegemonía - contra hegemonía. El debate argumentativo de contexto del modelo biomédico - cartesiano hegemónico, con su complementariedad dialéctica: Clínica - Modelo Preventivista y la emergencia de miradas alternas desde la Salud Publica como la Medicina Social - la Salud Colectiva, entre otras. Confronta al lector desde los procesos de ruptura paradigmática ante la crisis civilizatoria humana, las emergencias sociales y alternas que se hacen presentes.
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La educación médica se considera como un proceso continuo de aprendizaje que empieza con la admisión en la escuela de Medicina y que termina con el retiro de la práctica activa. Su objetivo es formar profesionales que fomenten la salud de todas las personas. Es por esto que durante todo el proceso formativo se contempla la concepción integral de la salud como principio incuestionable de la educación en Ciencias de la Salud. En este artículo se pretendió fundamentar el principio y los elementos que el mismo contempla a través de la revisión de documentos de trascendencia y el criterio de los autores, lo que hace evidente cómo el principio de la concepción integral de la salud está concebido en todo el proceso de formación de los profesionales de la salud y también como premisa del profesional que se desempeña en el Sistema Nacional de Salud en Cuba. Se consideran aspectos relacionados con la dimensión bio-psico-social del hombre, el enfoque de las acciones de promoción, prevención, curación y rehabilitación de la salud, lo clínico epidemiológico y ambiental, todos estos constituyen elementos del principio de la concepción integral de la salud, el cual se concreta en la educación en el trabajo, contribuyendo a garantizar una formación integral de los futuros profesionales que tribute a un fin común: contribuir al mejoramiento del estado de salud de la población.
The medical education is considered a continuous learning process that begins with the admission at the medicine school and finishes when the professional retires from the active practice. Its objective is forming professionals who foment all the people's health. That is why throughout the formation process, the integral health conception is seeing as an incontestable principle of the education in the Health Sciences. In this article we pretended to fundament the principle and its elements reviewing the transcendent documents and the authors' criteria, making it evident how the principle of the integral health conception is conceived in all the formation process of the health professionals, and also as the premise of the professional working in the Health National System in Cuba. We consider aspects related with bio-psycho-social dimension of the man, the approach of the promotional actions, the health prevention, healing and rehabilitation, the clinic-epidemiologic and environmental aspect. All of them are elements of the integral health conception principle, taking form in the education at work, guarantying an integral formation of the future professionals contributing to a common purpose: the improvement of the population health.
