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The developing extracurricular assigment as an educational activity aimed at learning in the medical students

Abstract:

Objective: to assess the developing extracurricular educational assignment as a didactic alternative to promote the significant learning in Morphophysiology I subject in first-year students of the Latin American Medical School. Method: an explanatory study with longitudinal experimental design carried out in the Latin American Medical School in Cuba during the first semester of the 2012- 2013 academic year. The sampling was non-probabilistic. One hundred and fifteen students were included in two groups, namely, experimental and control. The control group performed educational activity in the form of seminars whereas the experimental group carried out an extracurricular developing educational assignment. The main evaluated variable was the level of assimilation related to the contents of cell respiration in the 6th and 11th weeks of the academic year. The frequency analysis and the inferential statistics for description, comparison and association of variables (X2, Eta, Sommers' and marginal homogeneity test) were used with the SPSS package 11.5 and EpiDat 3.0 for Windows. Results: the experimental group showed greater assimilation of contents than the control group. The level of self-perception of learning and satisfaction of students with the extracurricular educational assignment was low. Conclusion: the extracurricular educational assignment as a variant of developing teaching organization promotes the short and medium-term learning of specific contents by medical students.