Introduction:

Surgery teaching proposes that, in addition to developing abstractions, reasoning and intuition, the medical student develops visuospatial and specific skills for the resolution of medical-surgical problems, requiring active teaching methods; the objective is to evaluate if the application of a methodological program based on the use of the virtual environment Moodle improves the learning in the course of surgery.

Subjects and methods:

A pre-test (20 points) with a high degree of difficulty is applied to 20 students of the 12th cycle of medicine, two similar groups were selected by a simple random probabilistic sampling technique, one of which (experimental group) was included in a complementation program developed through the Moodle platform, at the end a post-test was applied.

Results:

In the pre-test, the control and experimental groups obtained a disapproval and similar average score as hypothesis test 6.9 and 7.1; while applying the post-test after the intervention, a result of 15.2 was obtained in the experimental group that is significantly greater than the result of the control group that was of 12.3, thus indicating the effectiveness that was achieved by using virtual media such as the platform Moodle in academic complementation in surgery.

Conclusions:

There is a significant improvement in the use of virtual media such as the Moodle platform in the academic complementation of the course of surgery.

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