[An educational model for extramural 2nd-year nursing]

This article describes a distant curricular methodology of the Universidad del Valle Nursing Department. With such a modality over 500 professionals were able to reach the nursing licenciateship degree, without leaving their jobs and working in different cities of the country. The backgrounds offered refer to the programs of the southwestern region in Colombia and the results of the evaluation, which made it possible to provide a new nursing curriculum, more in accordance with the needs both of the community and of the region and the country. Two main factors are emphasized which underly the educational model: learning while rendering services and solving medical care problems of the institution, and at the same time fulfilling the quality level of the learning model for stimulating creativity, critical discussion, facilitating the active work of the learners. Finally, a summary is made of the method used and the results in terms of the model experimentation and implementation in five universities around the country.