Complexity and transdisciplinary in medical curricula committed to Latin American bioethics

Abstract

Adopting bioethics as the framework, this essay discusses the transformation of medical curricula in Brazil from a multidisciplinary model to an inter- or transciplinary one. The narrative review method is used to discuss the theory of complexity and transdiciplinarity, establishing an analogous understanding between how Latin American bioethics views use this theory to understand reality, creating conceptual framework of a medical curricula that goes beyond fragmentation in training. Complex thought and transdiciplinarity are fundamental for the bioethics views of the global south to understand a non-reductionist reality, one that is open to constructing knowledge that is not isolated in a biomedical understanding of the world. Likewise, to train physicians with a broader view of health and who value the social and subjective determinant aspects in the health-disease process, the curriculum must provide a rekindling of pieces of knowledge. The introduction of complex though in medical curricula can stimulate non-reductionist teaching.