Abstract

HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ, Ileana María  and  FERRO GONZALEZ, Belkis. Humanistic education and physicians’ ways of performance:  a strategy to its integration. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.3, pp. 491-508. ISSN 1561-3194.

Introduction: the process of a humanistic education is defined as the set of stages that medical students go through to achieve the systemic integration of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that enable them to understand, comprehend and interpret the humanist and ethical context in order to solve their professional problems. Objective: to structure a comprehensive strategy of humanistic education and physicians’ ways of performance for its implementation in the medicine major. Material and methods: a study was supported by the materialist-dialectic method, methods of empirical level, along with combined documentary analysis; survey and the use of theoretical, historical-logical levels; analysis-synthesis; Induction-deduction; as well as statistical means, where the descriptive statistics and the criterion of experts were comprised through the Delphi method. Results: from the conceptual -theoretical association, as a result of  a detailed review and the determination of theoretical-conceptual trends concerning the strategy term and synthesizing such results in the context of a humanistic education, integrated with physicians’ ways of performance; this strategy was conceived as a system of actions and procedures which were selected and organized to be implemented  in a sequenced way, the foundations that support the components of a humanistic educational process, which is responsible for guiding the pedagogical direction of this process in the medicine major was incorporated as well. Conclusions: a comprehensive strategy was structured which provides a system of actions through a planned model, becoming into a tool for achieving a strategic decision-making which comprises the administrative scope, and energizes specific strategic actions into the curricular and extracurricular dimensions.

Keywords : Humanistic education process; Medical education [strategy]; Professional performance [physician].

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