The role of the pedagogy of the change in postgraduate education

Abstract

In recent years, high medical education has been involved in promising deep changes to achieve better results in the integral training of professorial staffs. In the contemporary pedagogy, the pedagogy of the change is a challenge, and a necessary link to overcome factors of psychopedagogical vulnerability. With the aim of describing these elements in Medical Sciences and particularly in Ophthalmology, the authors performed a descriptive study using theoretical methods of analysis and synthesis of the bibliographic review on the theme to expose  their aims in teaching the before mentioned sciences  from new pedagogical approaches. A bibliographic search was carried out in SciELO-Cuba, SciELO-regional, PubMed, CUMED and Clinical Key, looking for everything related to the theme in the period 2012-2016. The following key words were used: postgraduate education, pedagogy of the change, leadership. There they are exposed the positive aspects that allow arguing the advantages workshop's teaching stage as well as teacher´s leadership provide.