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«LA FISIOLOGÍA INVISIBLE»: recursos audiovisuales para la enseñanza de la fisiología en ciencias de la salud

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[EN] Human physiology is a basic subject during the first courses related to health sciences. Physiology as a discipline is markedly heterogeneous, since it includes anatomical, functional, molecular and biochemical notions, all widely interconnected. For this reason, it is difficult for students to integrate this knowledge, especially in the first years where the rest of related subjects (general biology, biochemistry, etc.) are taken at the same time. To facilitate this learning, the audio-visual material implies a great support when it comes to specifying abstract concepts and data obtained through complex experiments. Currently students are digital natives, and find the audiovisual tools intuitive, facilitating their learning. After using resources of marked visual character (videos and online comics) in General Physiology classes in the Medicine degree, and based on the students' responses to specific surveys on the usefulness of said resources, we have designed a plan for the creation of a series of videos, which could contribute to student motivation, renew the teaching methodology, and also be used as free access content for other subjects and degrees, contributing at the same time to the promotion of 'open' scientific knowledge in society.