The construction of the clinical case as a teaching strategy for clinical management in the Mental Health Internship at PUC Minas Medical School Betim campus

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate the introduction of the clinical case construction methodology as a teaching strategy for clinical management in the Mental Health Internship for medical students at PUC Minas, Betim campus. It is a methodology for guiding applied psychoanalysis that makes it possible to guide the practice of interdisciplinary teams in services and institutions. In current medical training, it is increasingly necessary to include teaching tools that convey a more humanized and comprehensive clinical approach to the patient's life context, especially with people with mental suffering. This clinical methodology makes it possible to deepen the understanding of the patient's subjective functioning, considering their relationships with the world in which they live. Thus, it is a strategy that makes it possible to improve the clinical management of patients with mental suffering, since it focuses on the uniqueness of each case, bringing benefits both to the patient, by better understanding their psychosocial reality, and to the student, preparing them for a more refined clinical approach, as well as practice in an interdisciplinary team, generating the expansion of knowledge.