We are pleased to present the XXII National Congress of the Italian Society of Medical Pedagogy.
This year SIPeM joins the University of Verona to pay homage to the memory of Professor
Luciano Vettore, an enlightened professor of the University and a pillar of the Society to which he dedicated his
whole life with passion.
The congress takes up a theme dear to Professor Vettore that finds expression in the work of the Japanese artist Kimiko Yoshida in her reinterpretation of the goddess Hygeia by Gustav Klimt. The Austrian painter proposes a goddess with a very vital appearance with a penetrating gaze, ears emphasized by rich decoration, elegant arms and hands clearly visible, with a sense of mastery of the snake coiled around her arm. An image of Medicine in Klimt’s time, when the doctor looked, listened, auscultated and palpated the patients before proposing his treatment. In the self-portrait of the Japanese artist, the representation of Medicine becomes an almost cadaverous image completely wrapped in a tangle of cables, a symbol of technology, which obscure the senses and even engulf the snake. Here, the artist represents the transition to Medicine in the digital era, totally replaced by flows of information mediated by information technology and no longer collected directly from the patient.
An invitation to reflect, in perpetual balance between tradition and innovation, on what training
to guarantee to students, future health professionals. An invitation that we have chosen as
the iconography of the congress that therefore proposes to explore the role of technology and information technology on
the programs and methods of student learning and consequently on the training of trainers,
on the well-being of students, on the ethical implications without forgetting the issues
related to global health.
The congress also includes an important training moment with the possibility of participating in three pre-congress
courses and ten workshops on the burning issues of today’s pedagogy. There will be ample
spaces for sharing experiences and research, offering everyone the opportunity to participate with oral
communications, posters or with the innovative presentation method of PechaKucha. The scientific
proposal will be integrated with a social program that includes the Members’ Assembly to advance in our
development objectives for the SIPeM and a convivial evening meeting. The working hours will be such as to
allow those who wish to explore the cultural and architectural riches of Verona.
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