PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION APPLIED TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE PATIENT CENTRED CLINICAL METHOD, TOWARD THE HINTERLAND REALITY

For Cassel disease is just one of the dimensions of an individual. To Hippocrates, the study of medicine must first understand the context to be faced in the life of patients. The Patient Centred Clinical Method analyzes the individual beyond the disease, working to improve the life quality of people and communities. Similarly, the Participant Observation is an investigative method focused on the analysis of a social context. Combine these techniques during graduation may encourage the development of skills and abilities set out in the Guidelines for Medical Course. In July 2015 a group of 100 people, composed of professionals and students from various fields of knowledge has led to Maxinaré, rural community with whom we interacted during a week. During this period, in addition to helping those people in their daily work, the participants applied a standard history form with the scope to trace the epidemiological profile of the community. After analyzing the data, students in the health fiel, gave lectures aimed at combating the main problems of the population: cardiometabolic diseases and abuse of alcohol and other drugs. With this experience, students have experienced and observed the health implications brought about by the hinterland routine and thus thought in the best strategies to address the themes chosen for the promotion of health. Medicine is a science that studies the human. Combining knowledge from other areas, such as anthropology, can assist in the development of teaching methods and more effective approach within distant communities in our social context.