Um relato de experiência em educação médica: Módulo de Desenvolvimento Pessoal – Psicopatologia na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Ceará em Sobral

Abstract

Semiology is the basis for an excelent medical practice: knowing how to observe, see, listen carefully and expound what the patient says leading to a succesfull clinical reasoning are essential faculties of medical doctors. So we present our experience in medical education with the medical course discipline “Personal development: Psychopathology”, Federal University of Ceará in Sobral. In this modulus, students were presented to a different approach in semiology, focusing on mindfull hearing to carefully observe and analyse the presented phenomena. Since psycopathology is a branch of knowledge which focuses on abnormal psychic phenomena exactly how they present themselves to human experience, this area requests concentration on the subjective experiences. Therefore, students were immersed in a complex and delicate universe, in which human mind is the stage to uncertainties and analysis. From this challenge, the structure of the discipline was made concerning not only cognitive learning and abilities development, but also skills and attitudes upgrowth. Through the end of the learning process, students’s report showed good outcomes, in both provoking reflexion and stimulating personal growth in character and ethics, beyond their mere medical doctor’s expertise. Dealing with situations in which the limits of mental health are evoked, as well as the limits of medical practice and knowledge, one must reach to the psychic, social and spiritual human necessities dimension. The need to position medical students in this ethical challenge is asserted, manly for showing them the importance to look upon individual’s dignity which lies beyond physical-biological dimension and the medical-hospital scenario.