Facebook as a complementary learning tool in a Family and Community Medicine discipline: experience report

• Autor(a) principal: Savassi, Leonardo Cançado Monteiro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Toneli, Bárbara Rodrigues, Santos, Álisson Oliveira dos, Pereira, Rodrigo Pastor Alves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Docência do Ensino Superior (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/2359
• topic: Rede social; Educação; Medicina de Família e Comunidade; Social networking; Education; Family Practice

The use of Social Networks in learning process has expanded in recent years due to its popularity among students, the flexibility of time spend there and its potential for teachers and students interaction and among students themselves. We present the Federal University of Ouro Preto School of Medicine “Family and Community Medicine” discipline experience, where Facebook Social Network is used as a complementary tool in the academic learning process. In a controlled and secret group of this network, the students enrolled in the discipline convert daily clinical doubts into learning objectives under supervision of the responsible teachers. The academics participation is neither mandatory nor evaluative. It is a complementary strategy in which there was active participation arising from patient care doubts, making the students’ interactions qualified, and the process of learning contextual and meaningful.