Evaluation of the impact of printed matter, video, and multimedia on the learning/teaching process in tropical diseases

• Autor(a) principal: Sarmento E Souza, M. F. [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2001
• Outros Autores: Cataneo, A. [UNESP], Barraviera, B. [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-79302001000200009; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/212347
• topic: medical education; tropical diseases; multimedia; video; printed matter

This study evaluated the impact of printed matter, video, and multimedia on the learning/teaching process in Tropical Diseases. Eighty-four of 90 fourth-year medical students at Botucatu School of Medicine of UNESP were evaluated. The students received a kit containing a textbook, a video, and a CD-ROM on the Clinical Study of Tetanus to prepare a seminar on the subject. They were then asked to complete a questionnaire, which led to the following conclusions: 67.86% read the textbook, 91.66% watched the video, and 77.38% explored the CD-ROM. These results were obtained observing the total number of students using each different media. When asked which of these media contributed most, the CD-ROM came out on top. The authors stress that this learning teaching process motivated the students by opening possibilities for new teaching alternatives in medicine.