Medical teaching, the society’s computerization, and the electronic book

Abstract

Introduction:

The development of computer and communication technologies, together with the need for the computerization of the medical teaching process and the role that electronic textbooks should have in postgraduate training, constitutes a motivation for creating didactic means that support the appropriation of knowledge by future Anesthesiology and Reanimation specialists.

Objective:

To determine the need to introduce a textbook in electronic format into the teaching of Anesthesiology, as a teaching aid capable of contributing to the training of a specialist with knowledge.

Methods:

For the justification of the proposal and the determination of its components and characteristics, theoretical and empirical methods were used, such as documentary analysis, the system approach, modeling, the interview, and surveys. These methods allowed the diagnosis of the situation, the preparation of the proposal, and proposal’s implementation.

Conclusions:

Computerization of the postgraduate teaching process is enhanced and continuously improved through the use of electronic textbooks, which can be a solution to the contradiction manifested in the didactic use of these aids, as well as selective and intentional reading of specific contents, and the pleasant and diverse encounter with the preferred reading or material shared at any time or place.

Keywords:   medical teaching; computerization; virtualization; electronic book; pain; postgraduate.