IMPLEMENTATION OF PERSONALIZED SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION AT THE LABORATORY OF PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY II OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TUCUMAN

SESTO CABRAL M. EUGENIA; ARIAS M; NIEVA MORENO M.I.;; ORDOÑEZ A.; GÓMEZ MORTON T. ;; GÓMEZ J. D.,

Cordoba- Capital- Argentina

Congreso; I Reunion Internacional de Ciencias Farmaceuticas RICiFA; 2010

Facultad de Ciencias quimicas- UNC

Introduction: The aim of Teachers of Pharmaceutical Technology II Laboratory is the, constantly seeking of new tools and teaching resources for students of pharmacy (future professionals) to achieve optimum gain while training in their career and get a better relationship teacher - pupil. This will introduce significant changes in the roll of teachers and students assigning to the latter an active role beyond that, in practice, they behave as passive listener or scoring information. The teacher?s purpose is to give the student involvement in the design of novel formulations that stimulate inventiveness by giving security and promoting their knowledge. The proposal is to assign to the teacher an integrator role, giving up sole possession of knowledge to share with the group, and orient it to achieve its objectives. The teacher behaves like a cheerleader posing questions, creating problem situations, encouraging and showing alternatives. All this enriches their relationship with the group allowing you to achieve superior results quantitatively and qualitatively. The objective is to become student in an individual subject, this can be made possible with their practice, future development, with particular attention to the responsibilities contracted by the fact of studying something concrete, facilitating also the evolutionary development of self-control. Materials and Methods: The challenge was to allocate groups, a vegetal species with popularly known medicinal properties, was assigned with the purpose to design and develop a pharmaceutical dosage form, containing an active principle on an extract, all accompanied by the relevant bibliographical support. This research and design process was followed by teachers on a permanent basis, not only guiding the student, but proposing solutions to various problems that arose along its cognitive evolution. Students should orally present their work and prepare a paper following the guidelines that required the local health authority for approval and subsequented commercialization of product. Results: 10 monographs where presented, which constituted a contribution to rescue the popular knowledge with scientific backing. These final papers were presented at scientific national conferences for students, winning awards and accolades. In parallel a continual self-assessment, through surveys, with the aim of improving the teaching-learning process is being performed. The slogan sparked interest in some of them, in such a measure that they request to continue with the work as students under training in the laboratory. Conclusions: Analyzing the assessment instruments and the results it can be inferred that this methodology allowed students to feel encouraged themselves in their knowledge, to develop research and to design formulations. We suggest the starting point of a participatory integration of, teachers and students in the planning, organization and development of all areas of the student, with stimulation of autonomy, creativity and critical analysis.