AN E-LEARNING MODULE IN A PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL COURSE INTERNSHIP: INCREASING INTERACTIVITY WITH STUDENTS

Introduction/objective: E-learning refers to the use of Internet technologies to deliver a variety of learning modes. There is evidence for the effectiveness and acceptance within the medical education community. Family Health discipline of Unifenas implemented a virtual module in the Moodle Platform for the fifth year internship as the students were located in other cities far from the University, with the objective to support theoretical content. Methods: There were produced videos and presentations with audio, allowing student to explore the screen, opening more content and listening the audio again. It was provided literature references for further review and study. Every week a different clinical case was proposed to encourage a discussion between the students and the teacher. A forum was opened to solve doubts and answer questions. The accesses to the plataform were controlled to check the students participations. Results/conclusions: Despite of some resistance by the students in the beginning, mainly because this modality had never been used in the medical course, they reported a very satisfactory level of learning through this method in the end, as they were encouraged to perform personal engaging on research the content. E-Learning allowed higher level of interaction between the students and the teacher sparing teacher transportation costs to the students cities. It also allowed to offer the same content to the students in both cities at the same period of time. e-Learning allowed a new experience in the family health area, with a more intense dialogue between teacher and students, improving learned content.