Formación docente en programas de posgrado

Abstract

To give support to the Specialties's program, the University Nursing' school of the Republic of Uruguay, introduced the concept of care teachers as academic support to these programs that was initiated. This article is based on the graduates in Nursing's formation, whose would guide future specialists. We are going to describe how accompanied them to enter the teaching model and apprenticeship, based on adult education in a context of professional practice. The training was done through a course designed and delivered in a distance learning format. It sought to encourage the use of participatory methodologies focused on apprenticeship based on problems and used of evidence. The results completed education, allowed to see a high compliance of the course activities despite not being mandatory, showing a high commitment of the participants to the education provided. The practices proposals and activities assigned, teach different activities that could then replicate as teachers of specialties. Participants assessed the course highlighting the quality and practicality, in addition to consider appropriate mode and useful in their teacher's activity, well their future students shared their characteristics. Successful consequences of this education were to serve as teachers in specialties where most fulfilled various roles so in the clinical as in the virtual classroom. The apprenticeships are translated into a series of activities that could be implemented to start their teaching performance.