MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE SEARCH FOR HUMANIZATION

Introduction and Objective: The Unified Health System is increasingly concerned with the humanization and because of the importance of this in health care, medical education has been undergoing significant changes on the preparation of future doctors. In order to reach this goal, in 2011 the Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Program in Medicine were created. In this context the Problem Based Learningarises and the University of Rio Verde, through the application of this methodology, allows the student to get closer to the population.Medicine Integrated to Community Health(MICH) is an academic discipline and a cornerstone in the medical humanization consolidation. Thus, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate how thisacademic discipline promotes humanization. Methodology: To describe the results a descriptive experience report was chosen. The report is based on experiences lived by medical students during classes for six semesters. Results and conclusions: It is true that MICH achieves the humanization, so often neglected in the medical field. The objective of the MICHis to build doctors who are empathetic to the suffering of others, going beyond diagnosis and treatment. This incorporates perfectly with the statement of Cassel(1991): "The medicine’s task in the XXI century will be the discovery of the person ...".The Maguerez’s arch is directly involved: observation of reality that identifies problems, key points, theorizing, hypothesis and application to reality. Thus, the search for knowledge is eternalized from the moment that it stimulates the different intellectual abilities of each person making the academic the protagonist in the struggle for changes in the community.