Palliative care through a student's eyes
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https://doi.org/10.32385/rpmgf.v25i2.10606Keywords:
Palliative Care, Undergraduate Medical TeachingAbstract
Palliative Medicine is a medical, scientific, rigorous and humanized knowledge that treats patients and their families with chronic, progressive and incurable diseases. During his academic curriculum, the medical student centralizes his strengths in the physiologic process of particular diseases, diagnosis and treatment.The undergraduate medical curriculum doesn´t contemplate the principles of Palliative Care and rarely defines the individual on a holistic perspective.Young medical students are trained as biomedical scientists, doctors that cure the disease, rather than healers of the individual as a whole. It´s desirable that the undergraduate Palliative Care teaching slowly penetrates the academic structure, ideally becoming an obligatory part of the curriculum. Through his personal experience, the author intends to give some orientations to young medical students to overcome the difficulties found when trying to transmit and practice the principles of Palliative Care within medical teams that have deficient knowledge on this specific area.Downloads
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