| Summary: | Introduction: changes in the dynamic of the attention in health, obligates to the search
of new scenes where to do the process of education and learning of the medicine. Virtual
and informatics techniques have been developed in the last decades and it becomes
necessary to value its applicability and importance within the medical education.
Objective: to identify if recent virtual technologies of the communication, media
informatics and cybernetic tools are useful for the education and learning of the Medicine.
Methods: thematic review with documents obtained in databases ScienceDirect, Scielo
in Spanish and in the webpages of the reviews JAMA, Lancet and New England Journal
of Medicine. Articles in English and Spanish were considered informatics platforms
documents published between 1995 and 2015.
Results: medical education could be enriched with the contribution that afford the
technological, computer and virtual advances of recent introduction. Electronic devices,
web pages, informatics platforms, applications (Apps), search engine, databases and
virtual libraries provide images, videos, graphs and texts that contribute efficiently and
facilitate the process of education and learning of the medicine. New currents of open
access to the scientific information do that the new medical knowledge is available for
all, as soon as it is published. The virtual social network contribute to the collaborative
work and bring the researchers over between them. In the same way, they interact
with teachers and students, without geographic or linguistic barriers. The laboratory of
cybernetic simulation contributes to the acquisition of clinical and surgical experience
and in the doctor-patient relationship.
Conclusions: it is opportune to take advantage of the tools that offer the technologies
of the information and the communications, due to they are valid in medical education.
Teachers should include the informatics and the virtual tools to their educative practices.
The medical students could consolidate their learning using electronic devices, apps and
simulators and internet. Of being necessary, reforms in the pedagogic strategies of the
medical education should be implement to make them coherent with the pedagogic
contemporary currents. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2014;5(2):295-306.
KEYWORDS
Medical education, Information technology, Science and technology information
networks,Multimedia, Educational technology
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