Elaboração de podcast como ferramenta educacional para estudantes de medicina

Abstract

Introduction: The new National Curriculum Guidelines (NCG) of the medical course has the objective of allowing a more complete preparation of the doctor and suggests that medical education should use pedagogical mechanisms that enable the performance of the student in the construction of knowledge. A widely used tool in academia today, and as a technology for teaching health across the world has been the webcast, or podcast. The podcast is a way of publishing digital media files in audio or video on the internet, through an rss feed. It is a widely used tool for the scientific dissemination of university centers and as an e-learning technology because it is familiar to the new generation of students, and has low production cost. Objective: To evaluate the process of creating the podcast as an educational health tool for undergraduate medical students. Methodology: The type of study is qualitative in nature, with methodological guidance for action research, where it was selected four groups of students, and each one of the groups were assigned a period of development of a baby (0 to 3 months; 3 to 6 months; 6 to 9 months; and 9 to 12 months). In a first stage, there was a discussion about the child’s development in the first year of life, mediated by the master's student. In a second stage, the groups of students were assigned to create podcast scripts with the purpose of educating the population about the stimulation of children in the first year of life, according to each pre-established period for each group. In a third stage, the recording of the podcasts was carried out according to the scripts created, under the supervision of the master’s student and analysis of the participants. After editing the material, the podcasts were distributed through WhatsApp for mothers of patients from the Centro de Educação e Pesquisa Anita Garibaldi, and publicly available trhough podcast aggregators. Finally, students were submitted to a focus group to discuss the experience in making the product, and in the learning process. Result: students understood the creation of a podcast as an interesting experience both for the content learning process and for the development of skills related to communication with patients. Despite the difficulty in associating the proposed subject with an accessible language to the population, the creation of podcasts proved to be an interesting tool to train students' language and teamwork. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the creation of the text, under expert supervision, in order to avoid noise in the interpretation by the listeners. Finally, it was suggested by the students a survey for the listeners regarding the importance of the shared material and the possibility of involving the patients in the process of preparing the podcasts, as well as analysis of the audience and the reach of the product.