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The teaching of social sciences in medical schools: revision of experiences

This paper describes and analyses the literature about teaching social sciences in medical schools in different countries during 1960-2000. The methodology is based on documental/bibliography analyses of both systematized studies and information raised in the following database: Lilacs, Medline, Sociological Abstracts. The data of 1980-2000 from 21 articles point out: objectives of courses - stressing the relationship teaching/social changes/ health care needs/community needs; teaching/ learning methods - increasing activities methods, working with small student’s groups, starting from problems, field works, researches, use of audio-visual resources, dramatization, etc.; content of courses - there are a great diversity corroborating the results of prior decades and variable with each medical school. The aim questions are related to personal and interpersonal behavior, medical behavior, community and environment, care health organization, health-society relations, medical-patient relationship, diagnostic and prognostic social variables, illness-family relations. The conclusions present some general aspects and the main results.

Social sciences; Behavioral sciences; Medicine; Teaching; Curriculum; Curriculum reforms; Teaching methodology


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