A disciplina atenção primária à saúde da mulher, do curso de medicina da UFMG, mediada por tecnologia

Abstract

The impact of Distance Education applied to the discipline Primary Health Care for Women of the Medicine Faculty of the UFMG is discussed. The discipline is taught in Basic Health Units (UBSs), with the goal of training students for outpatient care. However, since many UBSs lack the adequate space for academic teaching, the theoretical content of the discipline and the evaluations were available online. The acceptance of the methodology, the change of the exposition of the theoretical content from outpatient clinics to the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle, the relationship between LMS use and learning, motivation for study, LMS access place and the operating system has been evaluated. The results have shown that the employed distance learning strategy has been well accepted by the students, improving learning and optimizing care in the UBSs.