Teaching strategies and techniques of the numerical relationship teacher-student in Human Anatomy

Abstract

Introduction: strategies and techniques are based by the institutional mission, as tools of pedagogic process. In the chair of Human Anatomy, the teacher is responsible for selecting them; considering strategies and technics teaching and learning.

The subject is divided: theoretical and practical component.

Objective: To identify strategies and teaching techniques applied in the three medical schools within the teacher / student numerical ratio during the period 2005-2009.

Materials and methods: The information was collected through a questionnaire administered to 296 active students, career doctorate in medicine and 15 teachers of the Department of Morphological Sciences (Anatomy) from three medical schools: A, B, C of El Salvador.

Result: teaching strategies identified: objectives (72.89%) and manual guide (100%). Teaching technique that prevailed in the theoretical component was the master class (59.98%). In the practical component, group monitoring technique is applied (100%).

The learning strategy, in the theoretical and practical components: Recirculation of information (48.47%).

Learning technique, theoretical component: notetaking (42.48%).

Practical component: review with repetition (46.82%).

Numeric relationship teacher / student: school A, 1/11; School B, 1/44; School C, 1/34.

Conclusions: within the environment of the numerical relationship, strategies and teaching-learning techniques applied by the teacher, are statics in the three institutions and respond to a representative of a mass education.