The The health system as an instrument of social justice

Optional Course at the Faculty of Medical Sciences - UNLP. Case Expósito

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to design an optional course to propose its inclusion in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of La Plata (hereinafter FCM.UNLP), and thus strengthen the curricular treatment of public health problems related to equity, quality, humanization and health security.

The same, and through the analysis of a material in audiovisual format called “The Expósito case”, proposes to reflect on certain traditions of professional practice that are reproduced through generations and incorporate specific knowledge in future graduates, in order to contribute to increase the critical mass of professionals sensitized and trained in this priority public health problem.

This paradigm shift, which puts the so-called hegemonic medical model in tension, must be accompanied by a methodological break, which rethinks the teacher-student-content link. That is why it is proposed to develop in the classroom, through relationships between students and with teachers, the values, principles and ways of thinking necessary to address these types of problems in professional practice: teamwork, collaborative , interdisciplinary, horizontal and predisposed to self-criticism.