Abstract:
The current medical teaching system in Brazil needs reformulation. CINAEM has shown us the road to follow. The family Health Program requires health care professionals with a different kind of background than the current norm. We propose a kind of teaching in which 70% is based on out-patient care, with the remaining 30% in-hospital, contrary to the prevailing model. The model should simultaneously include Clinical Medicine for children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. We are attempting to avoid artificial fragmentation of Clinical Medicine in isolated disciplines and to teach trough integrated modules. We establish a limit on the set of knowledge that should be transmitted to students. Graduates in Medicine should be professionals prepared to diagnose and properly treat 80% of the disease in a community. Each class of 50 students is divided into six smaller groups of eight students each for seminars and out-patient practice, oriented by monitors. Theoretical lectures in Clinical Medicine are given only once a week. The most frequent activity is examining patients and takes up 15 hours during the same period. Health promotion with all is its aspects is a course priority at the Unigranrio Shool of Medicine. Professional training of monitors is one of our objectives.
Keywords:
Schools, medical; Specialties, medical; Medical education