Os estilos discursivos de médicos em formação

Abstract

Doctors generally establish a vertical relationship with their patients, in which there are many asymmetries in the dialogue, but this socio-historical construction of asymmetries and distancing can be mitigated when the doctor brings his discourse closer to the patient, humanizing his professional practice. Medical schools can help with this through their role in training new professionals. With this in mind, this research focused on analyzing simulations of care provided virtually by medical students at a federal university in the interior of the state of São Paulo, in order to understand how students are evaluated and, based on this evaluation, how they construct their discursive styles. In order to do this, we started with French semiotics, especially the writings of Jacques Fontanille and his semiotic practices, and we used the concept of Zilberberg's tensiveness and Landowski's zoosociosemiotics. We elaborated and categorized 4 main discursive styles of doctors in training: humanized, bureaucratic, emotional and indifferent. In our analysis, we noticed a movement on the part of the university to get students to identify more with the humanized style and to understand it as conforming to the norm. We hope that this semiotic elaboration of discursive styles will enable new analyses of doctor-patient relationships, which are still lacking in studies and research in the field of linguistics.