Resumen de Enseñanza en bloque versus tradicional para un aprendizaje adecuado de la parasitología médica

Antonio Peña Fernández, María de los Ángeles Peña Fernández

• Since 2016/17, our teaching innovation group has committed to strengthening the teaching status of medical parasitology, following the alarming decrease in the teaching of this subject. We have developed and performed a series of curriculum modifications in the BSc Biomedical Science programme (BMS) at De Montfort University (DMU, UK), which have resulted in a positive effect on students´ learning of medical parasitology and infectious diseases. This manuscript describes and analyses further curriculum modifications undertaken in the BMS programme and in two important science programmes (Environmental Sciences and Criminalistics) at the Spanish University of Alcalá (UAH) in 2023/24. These recent curricular changes have been carried out with the help of e-Parasitology©’s open access virtual resource: http://parasitology.dmu.ac.uk/ to avoid time limitations, particularly at UAH.

  Moreover, we have evaluated the possible effect of block teaching on the learning of this discipline, a teaching delivery method that DMU has incorporated in 2023 following different challenges that the UK Higher Education sector is facing post-COVID. Although our results should be considered as preliminary, our modifications and the e-Parasitology© website would have shown to be appropriate methods and resources to strengthening the teaching status of medical parasitology across different programmes, irrespective of the previous background on parasitology of students. However, block teaching would have proven to be negative in the teaching-learning process of medical parasitology