“Physiologying” study group using active methods: the student’s perception about the use of this strategy in human Physiology teaching-learning

The creation of strategies that modify the classic model of teaching and facilitate the learning is a challenge for professors. Physiology, as a basic science, requires approaches that allow the construction of knowledge that are essential to health professionals and that stimulate the interest of students in the contents worked in classes. Therefore, we created the "Physiologying": a study group on human physiology. Our proposal included weekly meetings of students enrolled in the Human Physiology courses and students previously selected that acted as tutors. In the meetings different active methodologies were used to discuss the physiology contents. From the students' opinion, we verified that a weekly study group using active methods represents an important strategy to facilitate the learning process of physiology contents previously worked in class