A edificação do ensino médico humanizado no contexto da oncologia pediátrica: considerações sobre o filme "uma prova de amor"

Abstract

Among the several methodologies for improving medical education, movies emerge as an interesting option, not only by encouraging greater student interest, but also by creating situations similar to those experienced in daily life, which provides the viewers with ruminations. My Sister’s Keeper (2009) tells the story of Kate, a teenager facing the diagnosis of acute childhood leukemia and all the hardships and experiences that the disease causes in her life and the lives of her family. Due to the difficulties of students, doctors, family members and patients in dealing with the implications of the disease, the article aims to discuss terms and concepts widely used in pediatric cancer treatment, as mourning, terminal illness, resilience and bioethics, through the cinematographic perspective and the authors’ experience in using this teaching methodology. The authors analyze the film’s plot in order to emphasize these issues of great importance, but little discussed in medical schools.