A morte na formação médica: oficina de leitura literária como estratégia humanística no ensino em saúde

Abstract

Introduction: Death and the process of dying permeate the daily lives of many health professionals, who are usually in contact with patients at the end of their lives and who die under their care, constituting one of the most challenging clinical experiences. Thus, the reflexive exercise should be stimulated from graduation, so that academics become doctors capable of recognizing their attitudes and building integrated technical knowledge, through activities that stimulate the cognitive, affective and psychic domains, leading to humanization practices. Objectives: To carry out the workshop of literary reading with academics of Medicine, as a strategy to humanize and promote changes in the conception about Death and the process of dying of patients. Method: A transversal, observational, descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, with the realization of the workshop of literary reading of the book "Death is a day worth living", by Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were used, individually, before and after the workshop, recorded and transcribed for analysis purposes. The workshop and the interviews took place at the Medical Course of CESUPA, from June to September of 2019, after the approval of the project by the Research Ethics Committee of CESUPA. Medical scholars attending the seventh, ninth and eleventh periods were included, after signing the Free and Informed Consent Term and their names were preserved by codenames. Results: The interview before the workshop defined six thematic categories (definition of death, dignified death, preparation during graduation to deal with death, art in medical training, reading habit and acceptance); the post-workshop interview defined five thematic categories (definition of death, dignified death, literary workshop in academic training, the workshop experience, suggestions for the workshop). Correlated to these two moments, the most significant results were: difficulty in defining death, which occurred more safely after the workshop, with changes in conceptions on the subject; about dignity when dying (without feeling pain, without suffering from obstinacy in prolonging life at all costs, with technical and humanized assistance, good doctor-patient relationship, having self-knowledge and self-control to take care of the other, exercising the patient's right to information); about the preparation during graduation to deal with death (the subject of death is little addressed); about the contribution of the workshop to the academic formation (perceived as important, especially by the way the book was read: shared reading); about the contribution of art to medical formation (art is positive and collaborative); about the habit of reading (the medical course takes up a lot of life time and most of the reading is technical); everyone expressed their desire for its curricular implementation of the workshop, with extension of the time for discussions and conversation wheel. Conclusion: the workshop on literary reading proved to be a methodological strategy potentially promoting the sensitization of academics to the humanization in health, in the context of Death and end of life care.