Universidad Médica de La Habana. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Salvador Allende, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas. La Habana, Cuba
Universidad Médica de La Habana. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Salvador Allende, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas. La Habana, Cuba
Universidad Médica de La Habana. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Salvador Allende, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas. La Habana, Cuba
Universidad Médica de La Habana. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Salvador Allende, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas. La Habana, Cuba
Universidad Médica de La Habana. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Salvador Allende, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas. La Habana, Cuba
Introduction: the use of digital technology is recognized as a strategic university educative policy.
Objective: to analyse the relevance of the teaching use of virtual classroom by the Basic Biomedical Science Department, in Salvador Allende Medicine Faculty, of Havana Medical University.
Methods: it was developed a descriptive and qualitative investigation, using the case study method. There were used theoretical methods: analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction, historic logic and moving up from the abstract to concrete, and empirical methods: documentary review and focal group.
Results: criteria were determined that allow accepting the teaching use of the virtual classroom as a departmental teaching innovation that, based on the use of digital technology, it constitutes a transition from the face-to-face teaching toward the hybrid teaching model,
Conclusions: the teaching use of virtual classroom by the basic Biomedical Science Department, in Salvador Allende Medicine Faculty, of Havana Medicine University is a relevant teaching innovation that participates in the digital transformation of medical education.
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