Ana Cecília Lucchese

Semiologia integrada: uma experiência curricular de aproximação antecipada e integrada à prática médica

An early clinical exposure program was developed with the aim of avoiding fragmentation and stereotyped behaviors during medical training. Second-year medical students received an introductory course on Integrated Basic Clinical Skills (BCS), which included hospital rounds followed by case discussions led jointly by faculty members from medical psychology and various clinical areas (internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, and geriatrics). Special care was taken to provide a model in which medical students could learn about biological, psychological, and social aspects of illness within the same format. The article discusses the objectives, logistics, and staff of the course, based on the experience at the Federal University in Sao Paulo. The model offers an integrated model for both students and faculty. Further studies are necessary to evaluate these preliminary findings.

Avaliação de empatia em residentes de especialidades clínicas e cirúrgicas da Universidade Federal de São Paulo

In the field of health, empathy is defined as an attribute with cognitive and emotional dimensions that enables an understanding of inner experience and a perspective of the patient as a unique individual, plus the ability to communicate this understanding to the patient. The role of empathy is to identify and understand the patients feelings, thus promoting an increase in trust, loyalty and respect between doctor and patient. Therefore, the following study was aimed at evaluating the empathy 3rd to 5th year medical residents from the Federal University of Sao Paulo to verify any possible differences between the empathy of physicians and surgeons and their relationship with the professional profile.

Comunicação, humanidades e humanização: a educação técnica, ética, estética e emocional do estudante e do profissional de saúde

Neste artigo discutimos os conceitos de humanizacao e humanidades, sua relacao com a comunicacao na constituicao do sujeito e sua importância na formacao profissional, a partir de uma perspectiva do preparo de profissionais que tenham as competencias para um trabalho que contemple a integracao e a integralidade das praticas. E apresentada uma revisao do campo, discutindo os papeis historicamente atribuidos a natureza e a cultura na constituicao do sujeito, particularmente em sua dimensao emocional e moral. E relatado um trabalho que vem sendo desenvolvido ha varios anos no campo da graduacao em medicina tendo como referencial conclusoes que emergem deste estudo. Finaliza-se com uma reflexao critica deste trabalho.