The interdisciplinary training of the biomedical engineer

Abstract

The transformations that have occurred in recent years in Cuban Higher Education, respond to the need to prepare new generations to conduct themselves in an interdisciplinary society, however, it is practical to teach subjects in isolation despite the fact that among them there are close links and relationships. Educators have the challenge of creatively becoming protagonists of the development of the teaching-learning process in higher education and can provide original ideas to discover and specify in classes the interrelation between the different subjects of the curriculum. In the present work the experiences obtained by applying an
Interdisciplinary Curricular Strategy (ECI) that reveals actions for the Biomedical Engineer's training are exposed. It proposes changes in the career, from the curricular and didactic activity, with emphasis on a redesign of the Plan of study; harmonic integration of the Integrative Discipline (Bioengineering) and the Basic
Biomedical Sciences (Biological Sciences), as well as the use of practical tools to teach classes with an interdisciplinary approach, placing even in the same teaching scenario, two or more teachers involved in planning in different moments of the formation.

KEY WORDS: Interdisciplinary curricular strategy, Biomedical Engineer