Use of posters as a learning strategy in the humanities discipline: contributions to the training of medical professionals

ABSTRACT

Introduction:

The implementation of the Unified Health System in Brazil led to a need to reformulate the medical curriculum from a biopsychosocial perspective. In the academic field, the Medical Humanities (MH) component has stimulated interdisciplinary reflections of an ethical-humanist nature. This exercise is streamlined with the development of educational strategies capable of guaranteeing the execution of the discipline in the context of active methodologies. From this perspective, in 2020, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the traditional format of face-to-face classes was forced to be adapted for remote teaching, which led to the conception and proposal for adoption of posters as a methodological resource.

Objective:

To analyze the possible contributions of creative poster production to the physician’s learning and training process, in the context of the medical humanities discipline.

Method:

A qualitative exploratory-descriptive approach. The data was collected through virtual, semi-structured, individual interviews, from August to November 2022. Following transcription of the interviews, thematic content analysis developed by Bardin (2011) was used to assist in the analysis of the transcribed reports and the development of thematic units. The interpretation followed interdisciplinary theoretical references in the field of health and components of the medical humanities discipline.

Result:

The study sample was composed of 20 academics from a public university in the state of Pará. From the organization and reading of the transcripts, the following thematic units emerged: experience in face-to-face teaching; experience in remote teaching; poster creation process; art and medical humanities; contributions from the discipline and the poster.

Conclusion:

The use of posters as a tool highlights the role of academics as protagonists of their own learning in the medical humanities field. The majority referred to the use of the poster as an element that enhanced the reflection proposed by the discipline, favored by the mediation of art, in different forms of expression. It offered an opportunity for academics to express their feelings and understandings about topics sensitive to medical training.

Keywords:
Educational Technologies; Education, Medical; Humanization of assistance