Introduction:

Training in the healthcare area must consider several pedagogical strategies that favor the development of competences as skills to scientifically communicate the results of a professional chores.

Aim:

To explore the use of study case as a professional and academic learning strategy in students of the Nutrition and Dietetics career.

Subjects and methods:

The study case was implemented as a didactic intervention for active learning. In working teams, the students had to plan and implement a nutritional intervention based on a programmatic structure given by the professors. Once the activity ended, they made a scientific format writing, including the use of databases for the theoretical aspects of the article, besides the presentation of the experience in a public seminar. This research asset the developed activity through survey of open answers applied to the students at the beginning and the end of the process.

Results:

According to the students, the strategy was an instance that helped to strengthen some competence in the nutritional handling of elder people, besides reinforcing writing skills and vocabulary related to their disciplinary development. As a preset limit, it has been identified the elaboration in the writing document of the discussion.

Conclusions:

The workshop with a study case proved to be an integral learning strategy that, for one side, faculties the therapeutically management of a patient, the development of professional competences in the scientific writing development, besides allowing academic diffusion through the oral presentations of their results.

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