Plataforma moodle na disciplina atenção primária à saúde da mulher do curso de medicina da UFMG

Abstract

In this article we discuss the impact of Distance Education (DE) applied to the discipline Primary Health Care for Women, offered by the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The discipline is taught in Basic Health Units (UBSs) with a view to training students for outpatient care according to the prevailing nosology, prioritizing practical activity with more autonomy but with proper teacher supervision. However, UBSs offer a variety of other clinical, educational and health promotion activities to the community and are not well adapted to this academic teaching. In most UBSs, strategies are carried out in spaces without physical space for proper student and teacher accommodation. Thinking about improving the logistics at the UBSs, while addressing the theoretical content of the discipline, with the necessary quality of the medical course a pilot project was designed with all the theoretical programmatic content of the discipline, presented in the form of video, clinical cases, scientific texts and objective tests. The project was approved by the Departmental Chamber of the Faculty of Medicine and CEGRAD being executed during 2017 and 2018. A questionnaire for student assessment of the strategy was inserted on the Virtual Learning Environment Moodle and the results analyzed with package SSPS 2015 version. It has been also investigated about the best applied methodology, where the students performed their tasks and the preferred operating system among other issues. The results show that the employed DL strategy was well accepted by the students and improved the way of learning as well as the knowledge about the UBSs. Our results have stimulated, even though shyly, the EAD modality in the teaching practice of the medicine course.