https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2014.60

I medici e il camice bianco Note storico-culturali e implicazioni per la formazione dello studente di medicina

Vol. 63 No. 2 (2014)
Published: April 30, 2014
Camice bianco, storia della medicina, medical humanities / White coat, medical history, medical humanities, white coat ceremony
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Simona Giardina
simona.giardina@rm.unicatt.it
Ricercatore in Bioetica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
Antonio G. Spagnolo
Professore Ordinario di Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni, Istituto di Bioetica, Facoltà di Medicina e chirurgia "A. Gemelli", Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
L'articolo prende in esame il significato che il camice bianco indossato dai medici riveste nella nostra cultura a partire dalle radici storiche fino ai giorni nostri con riferimento alla White Coat Ceremony che negli Stati Uniti sancisce il passaggio degli studenti dagli studi preclinici a quelli clinici. Questa cerimonia - cui partecipano personaggi illustri del mondo accademico che hanno il compito di accogliere gli studenti in questa delicata fase del loro percorso di studi - rappresenta un moderno rito di passaggio ed ha un significato etico-antropologico rilevante in quanto segna l'incontro del futuro medico con il malato.
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This article examines the meaning that the white coat worn by physicians has in our culture, starting from its historical roots up to our time, with reference to the White Coat Ceremony, which in the USA marks the passage from internship to residency. This ceremony, in which important figures from the academic/medical world participate - that is, individuals whose duty it is to welcome the medical residents into this important phase of their studies - represents a modern rite of passage and has ethical-anthropological meaning, insofar as it represents the encounter of the future physician with the patient.

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Giardina, S., & Spagnolo, A. G. (2014). I medici e il camice bianco Note storico-culturali e implicazioni per la formazione dello studente di medicina. Medicina E Morale, 63(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2014.60

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