2023-09-03 09:58:43
The idea of becoming doctor to help people is no longer one of the most valued options among the little ones. A reality that has generated concern among the health community following the publication of the XVII survey ‘What do you want to do for a living when you grow up’from Addeco, where the results show that children prefer to become teachers, soccer players or veterinarians, rather than walk the long corridors of hospitals in a white coat.
With the intention of return the illusion for Medicine to the new generations, the family doctor Veronica Olmo has detailed to Medical Writing a series of measures that “might” help children see doctors once more as a reference for their future, and among which those focused on the educational field.
“The only contact children have with our sector is when they have to get a vaccine and that is something they don’t like. I think we should encourage them to see the figure of the doctor in another way. For example, through educational workshops regarding health and diseases”, he argued.
Health and disease workshops for children
With these types of activities, Olmo aims to ensure that the youngest “learn” regarding Medicine in a fun way and that, when they are with other classmates, they can tell them regarding the lessons they have acquired. In this way, they becomehealth agents”, a “very important” figure at the level of Community Health” because they are already learning from a very early age “the relevance of this sector”.
Olmo is the mother of two middle-aged children. When talking to them regarding their profession, they always insist that the most fun activities they have done in class are the workshops first aid y basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
“I think that more should be proposed because they receive them very well and they feel important since they learn how to save a life. Unfortunately, very few organizations are organized in schools. My son, who is 15 years old, has only done one throughout his educational stage ”, he lamented.
Leaving workshops aside and focusing more on his Personal developmentOlmo has highlighted the need to get them to learn to empathize “with the one who suffers” in a way altruistic.
“This is one of the qualities that people who work in healthcare by vocation have and it is a shame that in today’s society it is seen less and less. When a child adopts these types of values, he is much closer to a healthcare profession”, she concluded.
Visits to schools to promote a vocation in Medicine
Between the Medicine students Concerns have also been raised regarding the low number of children wanting to become doctors. To tackle this situation, the sixth year student Daniel Filgueiras He has shared Olmo’s idea of influencing the educational field and has proposed that professionals visit schools “more frequently”.
“Not so much to teach medicine, but to teach them so that they understand what it means to be a doctor. This can be a very cool measure that many practitioners would love. The idea would be, at least, to go to the schools once a year to tell what they do on a day-to-day basis and try to get them excited regarding this profession. In the end, working from below is when a society changes ”, he explained.
“The work in the networks would not only be teaching and telling the whole thing, but also explaining to them what a doctor does in his day-to-day life when he is in the hospital”
With the rise of new technologies and the forms of teaching linked to them, Filgueira has proposed encouraging the vocation through the creation of health content on digital platforms “but in a way adapted to small audiences.”
“The work in the networks would not only be teaching and telling the whole thing, but also explaining to them what a doctor does when he is in the hospital. Also, videos of curiosities related to health might be shown so that, little by little, they learn and say: “joe, how cool is this profession”, ”she stressed.
Guided and informative visits to hospitals for young children
Las guided and educational tours to hospitals can be another formula that encourages the little ones to want to become doctors. In this sense, Filgueira has proposed that excursions schoolchildren in small groups to hospital areas that are closed for maintenance or that there is no operating room that day to be shown how it works.
“That they explain to them how a hospital works, where it is operated or with which machines a patient is put to sleep, among other things. A more physical and material measure that might be super pretty to attract such a young audience ”, she concluded.
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