Communication in medical education: fields involved and pending debates

Abstract

The present work approaches the itineraries and specific problems of three fields that are knotted in a topic of growing interest for the academic formation of medical professionals; the inclusion of communication as curricular content. In the implications of such inclusion, political-epistemological debates that gravitate to the confluence of the field of communication and health, medical education and higher education are brought into play.

The aim is to present and problematize the topic based on the constituent aspects and the most current and urgent discussions of the three mentioned fields. The relevance given to these aspects and discussions aims to clarify premises for the inclusion of communication in medical training. Premises that, mainly, promote the systematic review of what has been developed up to now and call for the need to include the topic from a social demand that is revealed both in the links between professionals and users and in the extended relationship between medicine, health and society: the public dispute of the hegemonic medical model.