RAFAEL ALVEAR TERÁN: THE LAST EXPONENT OF THE ANATOMO-CLINICAL METHOD IN THE UNIVERSIDAD DE CARTAGENA

Abstract

Human anatomy was the focus of knowledge, pursuit and medical education in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. This movement came from medical schools in Paris and was called the anatomo-clinical method; this method spread the articulation of the signs and symptoms in pathology findings or anatomical lesions. Also, this allowed the growth of anatomist and development of teaching learning in medicine with dissection of human cadavers in dissecting room. Investigation, education and clinical assistance were carried out for decades under the anatomo-clinical method. Laboratory medicine and others areas like physiopathology and etiopathology emerged with the passing of time, which brought as a consequence that the role of anatomy in teaching and clinical practice was modified. The Medicine department in the Universidad de Cartagena-Colombia was influenced by professors who study medicine in French schools and books of the same origin. Inside this medical department there were many anatomists but the last exponent of the anatomo-clinical method was Rafael Alvear Terán. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2015;6(2):394-405 KEYWORDS Human anatomy was the focus of knowledge, pursuit and medical education in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. This movement came from medical schools in Paris and was called the anatomo-clinical method; this method spread the articulation of the signs and symptoms in pathology findings or anatomical lesions. Also, this allowed the growth of anatomist and development of teaching learning in medicine with dissection of human cadavers in dissecting room. Investigation, education and clinical assistance were carried out for decades under the anatomo-clinical method. Laboratory medicine and others areas like physiopathology and etiopathology emerged with the passing of time, which brought as a consequence that the role of anatomy in teaching and clinical practice was modified. The Medicine department in the Universidad de Cartagena-Colombia was influenced by professors who study medicine in French schools and books of the same origin. Inside this medical department there were many anatomists but the last exponent of the anatomo-clinical method was Rafael Alvear Terán. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2015;6(2):394-405 KEYWORDS History of medicine; Medical education; Historiography; Anatomy.

Keywords

• pursuit and medical education in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. This movement came from medical schools in Paris and was called the anatomo-clinical method; this method spread the articulation of the signs and symptoms in pathology findings or anatomical lesions. Also
• this allowed the growth of anatomist and development of teaching learning in medicine with dissection of human cadavers in dissecting room. Investigation
• education and clinical assistance were carried out for decades under the anatomo-clinical method. Laboratory medicine and others areas like physiopathology and etiopathology emerged with the passing of time
• which brought as a consequence that the role of anatomy in teaching and clinical practice was modified. The Medicine department in the Universidad de Cartagena-Colombia was influenced by professors who study medicine in French schools and books of the same origin. Inside this medical department there were many anatomists but the last exponent of the anatomo-clinical method was Rafael Alvear Terán. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2015;6(2):394-405 KEYWORDS History of medicine; Medical education; Historiography; Anatomy
• History of medicine; Medical education; Historiography; Anatomy