Guidelines for an “Operative Constructivism” in the Learning Process Through Cinema. The Film Archive for Medical Education of the University of Florence

The aim of this paper is to offer a reflection on the use of specific and innovative educational strategies involving students and professors of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Florence (Italy). Starting from an analysis of a properly created database named Film Archive for Medical Education, the Author shows how Cinema has a formative dimension that simultaneously involves the students, the trainers and the contexts in which they have to operate, hence becoming an extraordinary teaching tool useful for the structuring and reflection on and of the thinking.