La cultura científico-tecnológica y su relevancia para la medicina

Zusammenfassung

Scientific-technological culture has particular relevance for Medicine, to which an essential framework provides, since the aggregation of the adjective scientific-technological to the noun culture, Medicine becomes singularly reinforced and oriented in what concerns to reflection, rationality, critical skill, ethical behavior, defined values related with interpersonal relationships and decision making, all of these key competences for that science. In this context and intending to establish the varied relationships existing between scientific-technological culture and culture, this paper: (a) analyzes this kind of culture as a significant part of the general culture, indispensable for health professionals, and as a possessor of competences linked to knowledge, attitudes, habits, values and cognitive and communicational skills, common to medical teaching, investigation and practice, and (b) pursues, in accordance with a referential framework, to make contributions on the basis, different ways and purpose of its social ownership, also registering current Latin American and European ownership initiatives as a demonstration of its reciprocal utility. map in life support should be incorporated into the training curriculum for any student of Degree of Medicine.