Texts and... pretexts

The present book, Texts and... pretexts, includes interactive methods for medical students (and not only them), stimulating their imagination, attention, thinking, as well as volitional-emotional values. It starts from cognition as an interdisciplinary element and moves toward the final outcome.

Furthermore, the communication and relationship between professor and student — and vice versa — become a reference point within the applied educational logistics, leading to a particular conduct, attitude, and behavior. These are all reflected in creative ways of solving problem situations, following a sequential-strategic path from cause to effect.

In this context, using play as an educational-motivational exercise, the book highlights: everyday banality, personal experience, motivational expression, critical thinking, moral value, cognitive processes, and narrative as a starting point for narrative medicine. This way, the applied-interactive methods prove their effectiveness, with the common thread being the two main actors: professor–student, student–professor.