O wychowaniu nowego typu lekarza w Polsce na przełomie lat 40. i 50. XX w.

O wychowaniu nowego typu lekarza w Polsce na przełomie lat 40. i 50. XX w.

On shaping a “new type of doctor” at the turn of 1940s and 1950s

Magdalena Paciorek

The article is an attempt to answer the question, if a new type of doctor – a person with new morality – was successfully shaped at the turn of 1940s and 1950s. The Author discusses historical circumstances which play significant role in this context. And in the case of university students, the first symptom of the new social policy was the change of social profile of students.
The article gives a brief description of student recruitment process, scholarship privileges, organization of the initial year of studies, preparatory courses – all meant to open the access to university for young people from peasant and worker families (the Author refers to her other article where she discussed that issue more extensively). Next, the Author presents other factors playing important role in desired shaping of the new generation of doctors. These were, among others, influencing medical students by political organizations with their ideology, controlled selection of teaching staff, changes in the curricula, as well as e.g. participation in the harvesting campaigns or collectivisation of students. Also the university press contributed to the change of traditional image of a young doctor. The acid test of the above actions taken by the then state authorities were so-called “work assignments”.
The article does not offer a clear answer to the question if the transformation of the model of a traditional doctor to a doctor with “new socialist morality” in the new political reality of the post-war period was successful. See why.

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