Teaching methodology for the utilization of cinema in the teaching of medical microbiology and infectious diseases.

• Main Authors: María José Fresnadillo Martínez, Carmen Diego Amado, Enrique García Sánchez, José Elías García Sánchez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2008-10-01
• Series: Revista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/228

<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Garamond">Cinema, since it’s beginning, has been and is a social thermometer of the first magnitude reflecting the inequities of the population, among them are infectious diseases.  The caudal of images, sounds, and feelings that appear in the field support a very valid teaching resource, capable of complementing the classic teaching method and adapting the dynamic art of teaching to the actual educational tendencies.  If the definition of objectives and the teaching design are obligatory stages that should always be realized with rigor, in a method like this, because of its characteristics and youth, the control should be more exhaustive –before, during and after its execution- to avoid the “trivialization” to gain the maximum teaching efficiency that depends no as much on the material utilized (and its fundamental selection of films to accompany every unit taught) like the use that is made of it.</span>