Abstract

GUTIERREZ MEDINA, Héctor et al. Bioethical approach to promote during the specialization in Psychiatry. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.4, pp. 81-97. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the need to have adequate knowledge about bioethical standards for the management of patients with mental disorders is indisputable. Objective: to identify the bioethical aspects that should be promoted during the training process of the new specialists in Psychiatry. Methods: a qualitative research was carried out in the Psychiatric Hospital "Dr. Luis San Juan Pérez" of Villa Clara, during the first semester of the academic year 2016-2017. Methods were used at the theoretical levels: analytical-synthetic, induction-deduction and systemic-structural; and empirical studies: documentary analysis of the program and methodological guidelines and a survey in the form of interviews with teachers to explore the experiences of the management of patients with mental disorders from the current bioethical approach and the main bioethical conflicts. Results: bioethical aspects that were considered applicable to the studied context and necessary to deepen during the process of formation of the new specialists, among them those related to involuntary hospitalizations, the action to phenomena such as multiculturalism, religion, plural society and respect for diversity, the stigma of mental illness, the impact of medications, the role of the psychiatrist as a judicial expert and in decision-making, the application of mechanical restraints, mediation in intimate matters and his role of confidant and response to physical aggression. Conclusions: the bioethical aspects identified constitute a useful tool to evaluate, through the in-service training, the practice of a thematic that allows a more humanistic and comprehensive approach to the specialty.

Keywords : ethics, medical; Psychiatry; medical, education.

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