Health and social marginalization: suppressing curricular failures

• Autor(a) principal: Franco Ribeiro de Oliveira, Mariana
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Cruz Castanho, João Lucas, Santos Custódio Oliveira, Rodrigo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbmfc.org.br/rbmfc/article/view/1793
• topic: Social Marginalization; Education; Medical; Humanization of Assistance; Marginación Social; Educación Médica; Humanización de la Atención; Marginalização Social; Educação Médica; Humanização da Assistência; Marginalização social; educação médica; Humanização da Assistência

Objectives: To increase the health student´s understanding regarding social dynamics that leads to marginalization, its clinical features and existing public policies, discussing their role about the change of the exposed reality. Methods: A descriptive study has been made about the type experience report, having as main focus the Extension Program “Health and Social Marginalization: suppressing curricular failures” from a University of Curitiba. The annual program was presented with monthly meetings to discuss the themes: the meaning of health and the influence of the social marginalization, health of the afro descendants, indigenous, LGB and Transsexual populations, sex workers, homeless and mental health. In places organized by medical students with teacher’s supervision, the guests, belonging to the populations under discussion or involved in public policy, demonstrated their visions and sufferings getting involved with the audience through history fragments, experience reports and difficulties descriptions and perspectives within medicine. Results: The places presented great adhesion of students from several courses, there were surprised reactions and confirmation that they never had contact with this subjects in class. Most reported elucidation in these questions and the possibility of clinical application of the content to humanize their health care practices. Conclusion: The inclusion of the theme of Marginalized Populations in the health courses programs is necessary to encourage discussions that can make significant changes in the trained physician profile, following the competencies defined in the DCNs and now in the integral care offered to patients.