Objectives

to promote contact with a real problem and modify the situation.

Description of experience

“First the doctor I was accompanying did not stand up from his chair to receive the patient and her mother. He prescribed a fecal exam and then asked the five year-old girl to come to his chair so he could listen to her chest; she was dressed and standing during the examination. The consultation ended after three minutes and only five sentences uttered by the doctor. The mother left with no advice about her daughter’s health. So I realized I’d had a lesson where you learn an example not to be followed. This is not what we have learned in our classes and this is not the treatment that a human being deserves to receive”.

Results

we perceived flaws in the doctor-patient relationship in this case and at which points of medical training the commitment to humanized attendance appears to rupture.

Conclusion

the curricular change allows the application of methodologies that result in students capable of formulating their own understanding. This should start with early student participation in practical settings, which enables them to critically analyze and discuss the good and bad examples of a medical consultation. Thus, they may no longer see the teacher as someone who dictates the knowledge, but rather as someone with whom they share the construction of learning.