{"id":104,"date":"2017-02-10T14:12:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/?p=104"},"modified":"2023-03-29T12:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:19:46","slug":"is-the-qualitative-approach-applicable-to-medical-education-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/2017\/02\/10\/is-the-qualitative-approach-applicable-to-medical-education-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the qualitative approach applicable to medical education and research?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Maria Cec\u00edlia de Souza Minayo, Editor-in-chief and Luiza Gualhano, Communication assistant, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Medicine is an eminently practical area of knowledge. However, since the reforms based on the Flexnerian model, its exercise has been marked by sociological positivism and increasingly specialized biologicism. This theoretical bias presents an unforgivable gap in relation to the social, since life and death, health, disease and treatment are biological processes entangled and crossed by history and culture, which manifests itself in values, beliefs, representations, relationships, attitudes, behaviors and practices. Of course, the physicians know this because they live it through relationships with their patients in medical offices, hospitals and clinics. Therefore, intuitively they are certain that these concepts govern everybody\u2019s daily life, including theirs. Nevertheless, rationally, they do not accept that they may become a scientific object of study.<\/p>\n

However, qualitative approaches are based on philosophical principles that – considering only modern science – have been developed for more than two centuries and have been applied in the human and social sciences through comprehensive socio-anthropological, hermeneutic and phenomenological studies since the end of the 19th<\/sup> century. Thus, there should be no excuse for such perspectives to be unknown to physicians whose profession requires humanism and which practice is genuinely intersubjective.<\/p>\n

In this sense, two current phenomena are considered promising: the first is the fact that some leading biomedical journals such as Lancet and others have begun to publish qualitative studies more and more frequently. The second is the creation of new medical schools focused on primary health care, in which the relationship with the population becomes ever closer, requiring relational skills and intersubjective capacity.<\/p>\n

On volume 22, number 1 of 2017, Ci\u00eancia & Sa\u00fade Coletiva<\/em> contributes with the debate of the aforementioned questions and presents results of genuinely qualitative studies produced by physicians or research groups of which they are part of. It is understood that the participation of these professionals in comprehensive studies contributes to reduce the gap between collective health and clinical practice and to improve the physician-patient relationship.<\/p>\n

To read the articles, access them<\/h3>\n

Ci\u00eancia & Sa\u00fade Coletiva, vol.22 no.1, Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 2017 – <http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=1413-812320170001&lng=en&nrm=iso<\/a>><\/p>\n

Link externo<\/h3>\n

Ci\u00eancia & Sa\u00fade Coletiva – CSC: <http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/csc<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first issue of 2017 of Ci\u00eancia & Sa\u00fade Coletiva<\/i> presents the difficulties of medical researchers to adhere to qualitative research, on the one hand; on the other, it brings a series of articles, originating from empirical research or review in which these professionals appear as first authors or as member of research groups. The key question is: Why is that in the exercise of an essentially humanistic and intersubjective activity are there strong resistances to knowing and recognizing the scientificity of the qualitative method. …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,8,12],"tags":[36,199],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csc","category-health-sciences","category-press-releases","tag-ciencia-saude-coletiva","tag-collective-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}