The scientific and humanized information for training of health professionals: literature in the medical humanities
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v12i3.1521Keywords:
Medical humanities, Literature, Medical education, Health sciences, Scientific information.Abstract
Literature and medicine coexist harmoniously, being trivial to say that reading is good for health. However, the dialogue between literature and science is not always assumed for their mutual benefit. Is literature good for medicine and useful for training of health professionals? Aiming to reflect on this subject, a study of recent scientific literature on this subject was carried out. As a result, we have listed the works considered most relevant, with concrete contributions from the literature for the medicine and from the humanities for the education in medical sciences. We concluded that the health professionals value the literature inclinical practice and that the neurology and the psychiatry are the areas that most recognize the literary potential. A trend towards the inclusion of medical humanities in the curricula of health science courses is acknowledged. Thus, it will be beneficial to include literature in the medical humanities and in the training of health professionals.
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