Medical education through photopaintings: the historical legacy of knowledge that permeates generations in life

Abstract

The understanding of the discoveries, interventions and pioneering techniques of full professors, who throughout history have been or are part of the trajectory of medical education at the Faculty of Medicine of Bahia (FMB), of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), figures as a divisor of waters for the understanding of the chronology of medicine and as an inflection point for new perspectives. From the images of the photopaintings of the professors of the FMB, which are part of the collection of the Memorial of Brazilian Medicine (MMB), virtual research is carried out in biographical and academic publications. With categorization by year, discipline exercised, chair occupied, medical area of ​​expertise and notable contributions, for the production of dossiers. Cataloging is in progress, with the number of paintings in each room of the collection accounted for, some interventions and contributions documented in dossiers on the institution’s website. The survey of the stylistics of the frame and painting, authorship of each work and research in primary source, in the institutional archive, on the photopainted person are foreseen as a future step due to the COVID-19 pandemic.