Learning by Doing in Dental Medicine up to the Arrival of COVID-19

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odontology, didactics, teaching-learning process, higher education didactics, higher medical education, COVID-19.

Abstract

Introduction: Every day, learning by doing becomes more necessary for the dental medicine student. The new circumstances imposed by COVID-19 is demonstrative of this as a fact.

Objective: To analyze how learning by doing is implemented in the teaching-learning process, which contributes to the training of dental health professionals within higher medical education in Cuba.

Methods: A bibliographic review was carried out through the Academic Google search engine and in various bibliographic databases, such as PubMed and SciELO. The descriptors selected initially were educación en el trabajo en estomatología [dental education at work], proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje [teaching-learning process], didáctica de la educación superior [didactics of higher education], and educación médica superior [higher medical education], as well as their English equivalences. Seventy-nine sources were consulted, but, after they were filtered, 41 were selected, of which 75% correspond to publications made from 2015 to date.

Results: The genesis of education at work within Cuban higher medical education is analyzed, together with the way it has developed until the impact of COVID-19. The topic is also reviewed according to the international context, where there is a growing concern about the search for more or more alternatives less equivalent in the training of these professionals.

Conclusions: Learning by doing in the teaching-learning process that contributes to the training of dental health professionals in Cuba has been implemented mainly through education at work. Its application is linked to compliance with all the principles of didactics and an adequate contextualization of the various components of this process, which is essential in the new conditions that COVID-19 has imposed on medical education.

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Author Biographies

José Osvaldo Enríquez Clavero, Facultad de Estomatología de Villa Clara

Asesor Metdológico (Dpto. Docente-Metodológico de la Facultad) y Profesor Auxiliar de Anatomía del Dpto. Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas.  Master en Ciencias en Didáctica de la Biología.

Araelys Ruíz García, Facultad de Estomatología de Villa Clara

Especialista de Segundo Grado en Cirugía Máxilo-facial y Profesor Auxiliar del Dpto. Ciencias Clínicas.  Master en Ciencias en Urgencias estomatológicas.

Mitdrey Corrales Álvarez, Facultad de Estomatología de Villa Clara

Especialista de Segundo Grado en Periodoncia y Profesor Auxiliar del Dpto. Ciencias Pre-Clínicas.

Alexander Jova García, Facultad de Estomatología de Villa Clara

Especialista de Segundo Grado en Estoamtología General Integral y Profesor Auxiliar del Dpto. Ciencias Clínicas.  Master en Ciencias en Atención Primaria de Salud.

Published

2021-06-23

How to Cite

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Enríquez Clavero JO, Ruíz García A, Corrales Álvarez M, Jova García A. Learning by Doing in Dental Medicine up to the Arrival of COVID-19. Educación Médica Superior [Internet]. 2021 Jun. 23 [cited 2025 Dec. 5];35. Available from: https://ems.sld.cu/index.php/ems/article/view/2748

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