Choosing Wisely International Symposium

On October 14, the Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública receives the Italian doctor Marco Bobbio and the Brazilian Guilherme Brauner Barcellos, sponsors of the global campaign Choosing Wisely (Choosing Wisely), which aims to promote dialogue between doctors and patients about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures. The two are the guest speakers of the Choosing Wisely International Symposium which will be held at the Cabula Academic Unit, Av. Silveira Martins, 3386, from 8 am to 12 pm. Registration is open to the public and is free. Interested parties can apply online (click here).

In his best-selling book "The Imaginado Patient" (Editora Bamboo – 2014), Marco Bobbio reports how patients have been influenced by the flood of information, which has led to a change in their profile, now increasingly "impatient". General secretary of the "Slow Medicine" movement that emerged in Italy three years ago, the doctor explains that the initiative's slogan defends a sober, respectful and fair medicine. values, expectations and the patient's wishes, not imposing aggressive and fair medicine because it is egalitarian so that everyone can have access to the cure in the same way. Your participation in the symposium includes two lines: "The value of uncertainty in medical thinking – Value of uncertainty in medical thinking" and "The paradox of popularity (the cases for breast and prostate screening) – The paradox of popularity (prostate and breast screening)".

"International and Brazilian Choosing Wisely – Choosing Wisely in Brazil and in the world" and "The strange world of conflict of interests in medicine – The strange world of conflicts of interest in medicine", will be the speeches of the other guest, doctor Guilherme Brauner Barcellos (RS), pioneer of the Hospital Medicine Movement in Brazil and Latin America and coordinator of Choosing Wisely Brasil.

The program will also include the lectures "Perceived safety in screening for coronary disease – Perceivable safety in screening for coronary disease", with the adjunct professor at Bahiana, member of Choosing Wisely Brasil and editor of the Evidence-Based Medicine Blog, Dr. Luiz Cláudio Correia who will also coordinate the module "Medical Thinking", and "Bahiana's Medical Choosing Wisely Campaign – Choosing Wisely in the Campaign Bahiana", with the cardiologist and member of Choosing Wisely Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Marília Menezes. In turn, the Choosing Wisely module will be coordinated by the professor and coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Medicine and Human Health at Bahiana, Ana Marice Ladeia.

The opening will feature the participation of the Deans of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies, Prof. Maria de Lourdes de Freitas Gomes, Research and Innovation, Prof. Maria de Lourdes de Freitas Gomes. Dr. Atson Carlos de Souza Fernandes and Extension Prof. Carolina Pedroza de Carvalho Garcia.


Choosing Wisely

Based on a campaign conducted by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (ABIM), the Choosing Wisely initiative began in 2011, when several North American associations from different medical specialties presented lists of procedures used in an excessive and, consequently, inappropriate manner. Another point proposed by the initiative is the articulation of the professional responsibilities of physicians, which includes a commitment to improving academic training and, as a result, the quality of health care, taking into account the improvement of communication between physicians and patients, as well such as advocating fair and cost-effective distribution of restricted health resources, thus promoting safer and more effective care delivery.

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Secretariat for Graduate Studies, Research and Innovation and Extension

Academic Unit Brotas
Av. D. João VI, 275 - Brotas
Phone: 71. 3276-8265
postgrad2@bahiana.edu.br

Cabula Academic Unit
Av. Silveira Martins, 3386 - Cabula
Phone: 71. 3257-8206
postgrad3@bahiana.edu.br