Abstract

TORRES, Quitéria Silva do Nascimento; VIEIRA, Maria de Lourdes Fonseca  and  SOARES, Francisco José Passos. Medical teaching and art: public university's medicine teachers perspective. NTQR [online]. 2022, vol.12, e600.  Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 2184-7770.  https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.12.2022.e600.

Introduction: The lately years of scientific and technological development brought unnavigable benefits to the Medical and health fields, specifically. Nonetheless, it makes the biomedical model stronger and promoted dehumanization of care, breaking the confidence relationship between doctors and society. Medical professionalism pointed as a way to rescue this, has humanistic values with its essential constitutes. Goals: Through the teacher’s perspective, this work analyses how the art and medicine interaction can contribute to medical professionalism humanistic skills development. Methods: Descriptive exploratory qualitative research that adopts the online focal group's method and Bardin’s content analysis to collect data. Results: Twenty teachers in many pedagogical axes, disciplines, and teaching-learning levels participate voluntarily in this study. Four essential thematic categories are defined: Medicine: art and science; art and educational professionalism development; encounters and dialogical relations mediate by art at medical teaching: opportunities and challenges. Conclusions: It indicates the importance given by teachers to the use of art and perception of its applicability on teaching competencies development and expression to humanistic professional practices. Points the utilization of art at the researched school primarily as didactic-pedagogical resource, also to put individual ethical and humanistic approaches reflections, institutionalized or not, mainly at university teaching and extension contexts. The teachers notice the art potential to develop values onto professionalism: empathy, sensibility, ethics, and respect, as well as skills and communication, interaction, and ties abilities. Recognizes Medicine as Science and Art, fields that sustain the intersubjective acting between medic and patient, encounter to the higher expression of professionalism.

Keywords : Medical Education; Arts; Professionalism; Humanism; Qualitative Research..

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