USING VIDEOS IN MEDICAL SCHOOL: EVALUATING STRATEGIES

Introduction and Objectives: According to Marini and Boruchovitch (2014), the pedagogical practices often require changes that prioritize learning over content. Based on this, one must develop permanent learning strategies to acquire information. Keeping that in mind, monitors and teachers of immunology module at UNIFOR medical school developed educational videos that approached the module learning objectives for graduation. This study evaluated the relevance of the use of those educational videos as a teaching and learning tool. Method: This is a study of exploratory and descriptive qualitative approach, conducted with students enrolled in the second half of the Medical School of the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) during the period from February to July of 2015. 70 students participated in the study, 59% male and 41% female. They answered a standardized, self-administered questionnaire about the educational videos which were presented to them. The questionnaire responses were evaluated by the Likert scale. All ethical principles were obeyed. Results and conclusions: The results showed that the insertion of instructional videos contributed to the students’ learning process, since those videos provided them with clear and objective explanations about the subjects they were studying, mainly the ones that are considered to be the most complicated.This instrument, while presenting academic informations in a didactic and non-traditional way, allowed the students to feel more interested in the contents they were seeing in the classroom, proving to be a source of knowledge that stimulates curiosity and encourages learning.