The value of the testimony for the health science students’ professional formation

Abstract

Introduction: The social science´s teaching is a main area in the Cuban medical education, in function of the exercise of the social and family medicine of the future professionals. The construction of testimony by the students is pedagogical alternative for motivating the studies of the social field and contributing towards them professional formation. Objective: to explain the utility of the construction of testimonies of the health staff by the medical students for them professional formation beginning from the results of a teaching experience. Methods: it was carried out a qualitative study, descriptive type. The methods of historic-logical and the semi-structured interview were used for the creation of the testimonies. Then it was made a methodological triangulation with the results of a documentary analysis, outcome from the testimonies ‘content, and a participant observation of the student’s behavior during the activities. Results it was elaborated health personnel’s testimonies, especially internationalist collaborates, that it talked about the challenger in the presence of complex situation and the satisfaction for helping the population. Those are useful teaching texts for the social science courses. It was observed, in pedagogical terms, that those activities allow that the students deeper the knowledge about the society, they development communicative and researcher skills, as long as, identity professional values and them commitment with the Cuban medicine´s humanistic principle. Conclusion: The construction of testimonies by health sciences student had demonstrated it being pedagogically useful and it contributes to improve them professional formation