Abstract

This text recognizes the importance of the cinema as a training resource in the process of teaching and learning disciplines associated to health. Some resources and activities that make up the phases (preparation, development and evaluation) needed to design a lecture using a film. As a practical example the film Something the Lord Made by J. Sargent ( 2010) has been used. This film is based on the first intervention of the tetralogy of Fallot ("blue babies") that took place at John Hopkins Hospital in 1944. This film allows us to identify clinical features (symptoms and signs, diagnosis and treatment of that congenital heart disease) and ethical aspects (racism, fraud of authorship, scientific and religious prejudices) likely to be analyzed along a session/lecture and at the same time some possible activities to be carried out in the classroom are suggested.

Key words: Cinema | Education | Values | Didactics | Scientific misconduct | Medicine