Reflections on the teaching-learning process of physician-patient relationship

Abstract

The paper addresses the teaching/learning process of the physician-patient relationship considering the new medical education paradigm, the National Curriculum Guidelines. It argues about the need for extensive training, including related fields such as philosophy, bioethics, theology, and sociology. It points toward the necessity of teaching/learning, highlighting respect for otherness and autonomy, seeking to reflect on the theory/practice process related to this content into the living of medical students. It also aims to focus on explanatory models, laymen and physicians, discoursing about the need to deal harmoniously with differences. Finally, it presents the Balint's theory and its categories, which expand the understanding of patent's health/ illness process, as well as it analyzes the needed development of medical students' emotional  intelligence. The text attempts to observe the reflection of professionals who, somehow, influence the formation  of future physicians.