Formação médica: (des)construção do sentido da profissão: a trajetória da representação social

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

The present discussion about the necessary knowledge for Tomorrows Education points to a background that values general knowledge, complex thought, and an education oriented to critical and reflexive thinking. Medical education, according to this movement, is in an overt process of change. New concepts are being used in order to reach the paradigm oriented to an equilibrium between technological, social, economics and cultural dimensions in health care. Curriculum changes, however, are not powerful enough to remove resistances. Although Brazilian Medical Schools already graduate more physicians than necessary, there is an irregular geographic distribution and excessive specialization. This is the result of a model that privileges a technological and biological approach that favors hospitalization. This type of background has not been enough to satisfy the basic health needs of the population. This research proposes to analyze, using the Social Representation Theory, the representation of the medical profession of medicine students during their medicine course. Medicine students from Blumenau University, in Brazil, were researched in the first semester of 2003. It is proposed that students build a representation in social relations with their peers, with the instructors and other health professionals with whom they interact. In the social environment where the learning process occurs, medical profiles are assimilated. The results indicated in this hidden curriculum, that medicine students showed an evolution from an idealistic, intrinsically humanistic representation of the medical profession, to a scientific representation that is oriented towards a specialized job. This change in the figurative core of students representation may be responsible for the earlier option for specialization. From this perspective, teachers and directors involved with medical education are expected to be critical to this scene and indicate suitable solutions

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educacao formação médica educação médica representações sociais medical education educação médica; educação médica - aspectos sociais medical training social representations

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