Strategy for the research training of oral medicine students with the use of the ICT

Abstract

Introduction: the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the research training process constitutes basic needs for students to achieve the essential qualitative changes in the acquisition of knowledge and research skills required. Diagnostics produces carried out showed insufficiencies in the research training process, as well as in the real conception of research tasks implemented in the study program, reducing the possibility to reach the desired levels of creativity.

Objective: elaborate a design strategy aimed to develop the research training process of oral medicine students with the use of the ICT.

Method: an educational research was carried out using empirical methods pointed as follow: observation, survey and interview, as well as the theoretical methods: induction-deduction, analysis-synthesis, historical-logical, dialectical hermeneutic, in addition a socialization workshop was used to corroborate the feasibility of the proposal strategy.

Results: a strategy for research management with the use of ICTs in the research training of oral medicine students was proposed, consisting on three moments, stages and actions aimed at developing a scientific-research-technological culture based on the use of ICTs.

Conclusions: the implementation of this proposal, as a pedagogical practice, has demonstrated its feasibility and contribution in the development of the student research training, and also for a better solution of professional problems and, consequently, higher quality in their care practice with the patients attended in dental services.