Biomedical subjects

C Fraga Filho

Publications and source records attributed to C Fraga Filho.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1988

[Medical education in Brazil: critical analysis].

The progress of medical education in this century can be divided in two periods: the first until 1960 based in the Flexner Report, aiming the reinforcement of the scientific education, the second, from then onwards, marked by important changes occurred as a result of the expansion of the number of medical schools and the number of students, of changes in the health system and of actions developed within the schools themselves. The importance of training human resources for a changing health system is pinpointed, with emphasis in the social compromise of the medical school. The influence on the quality of medical education, of the labour market, of the organization of health services and of the financial support are taken into account. The responsibility of the medical school on the definition of his goals, on the pedagogic training of teachers and on the strategies for the teaching-learning process is analyzed.

Brazil↗

PubMed1980

[Curricular reform].

Advocating the thesis that the planning of medical education must be oriented toward the articulastion of instruction with care, the authors note that the curricular reforms of the last 25 years, though reflected in the teaching-learning process, have led to no improvement in medical practice or in the health of the population. This failing, they assert, stems from the fact that these reforms begin and end within the educational institution itself, and ignore the interrelations between the education system and the user of the professional, and results in the production of physicians who are individualistic and of narrow vision. The article refers to the slight importance attached to the complementarity and interdependence of teaching and care work, and to the restriction of teaching to episodic contacts between specialized professors and groups of anonymous students, each in the limited confines of his own discipline, and the relegation of the student to the status of spectator and possible assistant in care work entrusted to him without any responsibility.

Brazil↗

PubMed1979

[Education and training of the general physician].

The authors of this paper, part of which was presented at the Seventh Pan American Conference on Medical Education (New Orleans, October 1978), recognize that training programs for general physicians should relate to the particular socioeconomic conditions and characteristics of the individual country and region. They propose that the general physician in developing countries be prepared in graduate courses to provide primary care, in order to give service immediately after graduation and because opportunities elsewhere for recent graduates are limited. After outlining new curriculum proposals for the general physicians, they argue against the establishment of departments of family medicine in Latin American medical schools. It is suggested that the general physician's training take place in outpatient clinics, health centers, and community and teaching hospitals, to make possible the integration of the medical education and medical care. Until such time when integration is achieved, the teaching hospital should afford medical education and care on a small scale, offering outpatient general clinics, nonspecialized services, and community health activities.

Brazil↗

PubMed1972