TEOFRASTO A. TATIS. THE FIRST ONE IN BECOMING INSTITUTIONALIZED THE MEDICAL ATTENTION IN CARTAGENA. COLOMBIA.

Abstract

Teofrasto A. Tatis was born and died in Cartagena, Colombia (1865-1930). He was graduated as physician of the Universidad de Bolívar, today Universidad de Cartagena, in the penultimate decade in the 19th century. Quickly he became a teacher and achieved an important role as teacher in the physiology and gynecological clinics. He was an influential university and academic director. His major achievement was to generate conscience and changes in the educational and medical structure, leaving behind a system based in the charitable actions in the middle of poverty, to give step to an institutionalized field as governmental responsibility and under the protection and setting of the academic, involving the scientific and technique aspects. It materialized him creating the service or gynecological clinic of the Hospital Santa Clara in 1907, the first one of its type in the Colombian Caribbean coast and transformed the colonial Hospital de Caridad in the Hospital Santa Clara, where prospered a medical school that shone in the majority of the decades in the 19th century. His colleagues and contemporaries corresponded to his human and professional qualities, as well as to his dedication to the service for the well-being of the population and of the medical profession, with the construction of a bust that still exists in the Facultad de Medicina of the Universidad de Cartagena and that must be considered insignia of the dedication to the teaching and to the medical assistance. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2015;6(1):183- 196 KEYWORDS History of medicine; Ethics institutional; Education medical; Historiography.

Keywords

• History of medicine; Ethics institutional; Education medical; Historiography