Technological advances and the process of computerisation in the health sector have led to the need to train professionals capable of developing tools and applications in which the Health Information Systems degree course plays an essential role. However, its graduates show insufficiencies to put these contents into practice.

For this reason, the objective of the research is to elaborate a didactic model, based on the use of the project method, to improve the teaching-learning process of software design related to databases, from the subject of Software Engineering and Management, at the University of Medical Sciences of Pinar del Río. It contributes to the theory from the didactic model itself, its foundations, principles, essential components and relationships that enrich the Didactics of Computer Science from the proposal of new stages for the development of the process being studied, which integrate the stages of the project method and software design, which gives this process a systemic, integrative, sequenced and contextualised character.

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