title: Telemedicine and processing of scientific information in programs of continuing education.
abstract: Starting from some reflections on the goals of medical education, central questions are analyzed in relation to the transfer of scientific knowledge and the generation of more advanced cognitive approaches in professionals who follow distance courses. The core of this article refers to the information management processes, according to a cognitive perspective, in terms of the development of the medical thought. With that intention, particular educational instruments are indicated in order to achieve the internalization of the "modes of knowledge" acquired through significant learning. The basic criterion of the educational program is that physicians can best operate personally in the teaching processes relatively to their particular scientific domain, because they know, better than anyone else, what the proper methods of knowledge are: epistemology is the basis of any special teaching, the article makes specific reference to the production of texts of information technology. However, the general approach is applicable to any other means that may be used in telemedicine.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud de la Fundación H.A. Barceló, Buenos Aires, Argentina. rbruera@arnet.com.ar
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Bruera
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003142:Communication; D020375:Education, Distance; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D018961:Educational Technology; D007558:Italy; D007858:Learning; D017216:Telemedicine