So. Leon et al., SEMANTIC CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONCEPT DOCT OR-PATIENT-RELATIONSHIP BY FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF MEDICAL-SCHOOL, Salud mental, 19(2), 1996, pp. 36-41
The doctor-patient relationship is a transaction; it is a reciprocal i
ntellectual as well as emotional interaction system. It combines what
the doctor and the patient think, feel, do and receive from each other
. In this study we pretend to learn about the changes that develop in
the first year medical students of the Mexican National Autonomous Uni
versity. After a course in medical psychology on this concept. We hope
to see cognitive modifications in the teaching and learning processes
. The Natural Semantic Net was is used in 7 groups selected arbitraril
y. Results show that women assimilated more new terms than the men who
already had a larger previous semantic net, and that after the first
year, both sexes retained 40 % of the terms they had heard. It also sh
ows that at the end of the course their semantic memory is significant
ly increased.