Obesity and Overweight: A Service-Based Learning Experience

Luis Gomez Pena
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Luis Gomez Pena: Second Degree Specialist in Internal Medicine, Master in Medical Emergencies from Primary Health Care, Doctor of Medical Sciences (Ph.D). Management Skills Specialist. Director of the Medicine Career at the Private University “Franz Tamayo†, Bolivia

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2023, vol. 49, issue 1, 40309-40314

Abstract: The academic experience on service-based learning is evidenced desde the subjects of differentiated semiology and pathophysiology II, of the sixth semester of the Medicine career. As part of the advance contents of both subjects, the Findrisk Test is applied to the collaborators of the Private University “Franz Tamayo†, the metabolic risk is identified and complemented with laboratory tests, the diagnose criteria of the ALAD are used. work teams are formed by the students with the mentoring of the teacher as facilitator and prevention activities are carried out in the college community with itself the aim of modifying the lifestyle. The following were found as fundamental results: significant relationship between systolic blood pressure, limited fruits consumption and abdominal waist with metabolic risk; incorporation of results to the contents of the instructional designs of various subjects; level of autonomous achievement of the student and high level of general satisfaction on the part of the collaborators. It is finished that Este variety of methodology integrates the curriculum with the technological, the assistance and directly with the community as part of the student’s social responsibility.

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Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2023.49.007748

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