The meaning of physician-patient relationship for Medical students

Abstract

One targeted to find the meaning of physician-patient relationship for students at the Universidade do Vale do Sapucai (Univas). With the qualitative method of exploratory type and methodological guideline of the collective subject speech, sixty (60) students were interviewed, who were in the school’s first, second, and sixth years. It was noticed that beginners understand as physician-patient relationship an affinity and affectivity relationship, without distinction between the pathological and emotions involved. At the end of the course, it was observed that student’s stand was complemented, he is able to distinguish his emotions and care efficiently for the patient. One may state that curriculum reforms are fundamental for basic academic training, including the human being as a psychosocial being and not just a carrier of hidden lesions. Studies of this nature are encouraged that may be carried out with the intent of expanding bioethics knowledge in the physician-patient relationship, expanding it population with distinct features in different locations.