Abstract

ODIO, Eladio Francisco Vicente; ALMAGUER DELGADO, Alcides Jesús  and  GARCIA RODRIGUEZ, Ramón Enrique. Considerations about the teaching of the clinical method in the higher medical formation. Educ Med Super [online]. 2015, vol.29, n.1, pp. 182-190. ISSN 1561-2902.

The diagnostic individual doctor is circumscribed to the clinical method like the how-to guided system, it is the scientific method particularized in clinical science. The definition reveals an orientation positivist, reductive and simplistic, when homologating the procedures of the scientific method with the clinical method not taking into account the cultural elements and is not nothing favorable to utilize of so inflexible form the investigating method of natural sciences in social sciences. An investigation for the sake the exploring the teaching of the procedures of the clinical method in the medical superior formation, is proposed to consequence, the qualitative paradigm is utilized like methodology, with particular methods: Analysis and synthesis, hermeneutical dialectician and hypothetic deductive and underlies the scientific method like general method. Concluding that the exam and clinical diagnosis are essential procedures of the clinical method when contributing the bigger number of cultural variables and the existence of irregularities in the teaching of the exam and clinical method.

Keywords : medical diagnostic; learning; formation; clinical method; clinical exam; relations.

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