Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Sancti Spíritus. Sancti Spíritus, Cuba.
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Sancti Spíritus. Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Sancti Spíritus. Sancti Spíritus, Cuba.
Objective: To describe the current state of the ethical-humanistic training from the discipline of Medical Psychology, in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Sancti Spíritus "Dr. Faustino Pérez Hernández".
Methods: Non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional, mixed approach study. Sample: non-probabilistic, by strata (10 professors, 8 directors, and 60 students).
Results: The diagnosis showed as strengths: the discipline of Medical Psychology is integrated to the transversality of the ethical-humanistic training in the curriculum of the Medicine career; the education of humanistic values is established as a priority methodological line; the medical-legal curricular strategy is developed; there is exemplarity in the professors of the discipline; the students recognize the importance of the formative process. Weaknesses were found in the direction of the ethical-humanist training from the discipline Medical Psychology and formative needs of the professors to fulfill the demands of the physician's training model; there is still lack of integrative evaluations, with emphasis on skills and modes of action; as well as in the interrelation with the main integrative discipline.
Conclusions: The discipline Medical Psychology has potentialities to expand the ethical-humanistic training of the medical student; managers and students identified with the importance of the improvement of this formative process, however, it was found the lack of a pertinent methodology in its direction, according to the formative needs of teachers and students.
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