During the past few years a great area of thought and reflection named medical humanities, incorporating social reality and individual experience to the doctor-patient relationship, has evolved. The group Humanidades, Saberes e Práticas - Humanities, Knowledge and Practices was born in 2004 as a research nucleus composed by medical students, with the intent of getting insight into how the medical practice is dealing with the experience of doctors and patients and with the health-disease process. The lines of action involve research with oncologists for obtaining their view about the doctor-patient relationship in the oncological consultation as well as about the use of clinical cases, theoretic model and role play as teaching strategies for medical students from the third and fourth semesters. From that perspective we are trying to approximate the issue doctor-patient relationship and the every-day routine of medical students in an attempt to contribute to the development of a humanized attitude towards the diseased human being.
Humanities; Medical Education; Physician Patient Relationship