Home visits to children with chronic diseases: their influence in medical students’ education

This work aims to describe a project for teaching basic values of Family Medicine, in a context of home visits to children with chronic diseases. Medical students accompanied a family doctor of SOBRAMFA (Brazilian Society of Family Medicine) in home visits to children with chronic diseases and repor...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deborah de Senne Oliveira Garcia, Guilherme Gatti, Daniele Lima da Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro Universitário São Camilo 2010-07-01
Series:O Mundo da Saúde
Subjects:
Online Access:https://revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br/mundodasaude/article/view/606
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1850111044740972544
author Deborah de Senne Oliveira Garcia
Guilherme Gatti
Daniele Lima da Costa
author_facet Deborah de Senne Oliveira Garcia
Guilherme Gatti
Daniele Lima da Costa
author_sort Deborah de Senne Oliveira Garcia
collection DOAJ
description This work aims to describe a project for teaching basic values of Family Medicine, in a context of home visits to children with chronic diseases. Medical students accompanied a family doctor of SOBRAMFA (Brazilian Society of Family Medicine) in home visits to children with chronic diseases and reported their points of view through a descriptive narrative. The reports were evaluated using a qualitative approach. The study showed that medical students participating in this project managed to build a broader perspective on the complexity of caring for children with chronic diseases. Emotional aspects, family dynamics, the home environment, the pain and the anguish that families suffer to surmount obstacles in order to obtain specific medicines, together with financial problems, are shown to be correlated in each home visit. Students realize that they need to deal with all these questions to offer a more efficient and compassionate presence as doctors. They also understand that home visits have a high clinical efficiency because patients remain in their homes and are less hospitalized. A proposal for teaching medical students in visits to children with chronic diseases together with family doctors is a useful teaching setting because it reveals unsuspected and essential aspects to medical students and introduces them to the central values of Family Medicine.
format Article
id doaj-art-8dee088efb6c4d0cbd2330b6256b444d
institution OA Journals
issn 0104-7809
1980-3990
language English
publishDate 2010-07-01
publisher Centro Universitário São Camilo
record_format Article
series O Mundo da Saúde
spelling doaj-art-8dee088efb6c4d0cbd2330b6256b444d2025-08-20T02:37:42ZengCentro Universitário São CamiloO Mundo da Saúde0104-78091980-39902010-07-01343327335537Home visits to children with chronic diseases: their influence in medical students’ educationDeborah de Senne Oliveira Garcia0Guilherme Gatti1Daniele Lima da Costa2Centro Universitário São Camilo-SP, Brasil.Centro Universitário São Camilo-SP, Brasil.Centro Universitário São Camilo-SP, Brasil.This work aims to describe a project for teaching basic values of Family Medicine, in a context of home visits to children with chronic diseases. Medical students accompanied a family doctor of SOBRAMFA (Brazilian Society of Family Medicine) in home visits to children with chronic diseases and reported their points of view through a descriptive narrative. The reports were evaluated using a qualitative approach. The study showed that medical students participating in this project managed to build a broader perspective on the complexity of caring for children with chronic diseases. Emotional aspects, family dynamics, the home environment, the pain and the anguish that families suffer to surmount obstacles in order to obtain specific medicines, together with financial problems, are shown to be correlated in each home visit. Students realize that they need to deal with all these questions to offer a more efficient and compassionate presence as doctors. They also understand that home visits have a high clinical efficiency because patients remain in their homes and are less hospitalized. A proposal for teaching medical students in visits to children with chronic diseases together with family doctors is a useful teaching setting because it reveals unsuspected and essential aspects to medical students and introduces them to the central values of Family Medicine.https://revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br/mundodasaude/article/view/606children. chronic diseases. family medicine.
spellingShingle Deborah de Senne Oliveira Garcia
Guilherme Gatti
Daniele Lima da Costa
Home visits to children with chronic diseases: their influence in medical students’ education
O Mundo da Saúde
children. chronic diseases. family medicine.
title Home visits to children with chronic diseases: their influence in medical students’ education
title_full Home visits to children with chronic diseases: their influence in medical students’ education
title_fullStr Home visits to children with chronic diseases: their influence in medical students’ education
title_full_unstemmed Home visits to children with chronic diseases: their influence in medical students’ education
title_short Home visits to children with chronic diseases: their influence in medical students’ education
title_sort home visits to children with chronic diseases their influence in medical students education
topic children. chronic diseases. family medicine.
url https://revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br/mundodasaude/article/view/606
work_keys_str_mv AT deborahdesenneoliveiragarcia homevisitstochildrenwithchronicdiseasestheirinfluenceinmedicalstudentseducation
AT guilhermegatti homevisitstochildrenwithchronicdiseasestheirinfluenceinmedicalstudentseducation
AT danielelimadacosta homevisitstochildrenwithchronicdiseasestheirinfluenceinmedicalstudentseducation