The Medical College and the University of Chile expressed their regret over the death of Alejandro Goic Goic, an outstanding academic and winner of the 2006 National Prize for Medicine.
Ennio Vivaldi, Rector of the University of Chile, covered the news, referring to the event, qualifying it as “a great loss for the university, for science and for the country ”.
“His legacy will live on in the classrooms of the faculty, where today many and many of his disciples train the new generations of health workers for Chile.Vivaldi said of the graduate and professor at the Casa de Bello School of Medicine.
From the Medical College meanwhile emphasized that Goic “has contributed to the advancement of medicine, especially in the field of intern and training”.
“He gained recognition from his colleagues and students and took an active part in most of the innovative processes that have taken place in Chilean medicine in recent decades,” said the union.
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Dr. Alejandro Goic Goic, 2006 National Prize for Medicine, dies
Colmed’s president, Izkia Siches, for her part said that “a master of Chilean medicine dies, a humanist physician who has always thought about the challenges of the profession and guided us through the learning of medical semiology for so many generations. The Chilean medical community regrets firing him ”.
Goic, among other relevant positions, was Director of the Revista Médica de Chile for twenty-six years, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile for eight years, President of the Chilean Association of Faculties of Medicine for three years, President of the Chilean Academy for Medicine and Chairman of the Clinical Ethics Study Group of the Santiago Medical Society.
In early March 2006, a jury chaired by the Doctor Octavio Enríquez, then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Concepción and President of the National Ethical Court of the Medical College, voted to award Alejandro Goic Goic the National Prize of Medicine.
University professor and medical educator, he has had an excellent professional and academic career contributed to the advancement and prestige of medicine in the country, especially in the fields of internal medicine and medical training. He has been instrumental in improving scientific medical journals and was oblivious to the country’s public health concerns. In addition, was a promoter of the humanistic and ethical aspects of medicine and published articles and books on these issuesThey stressed when reporting the recognition.
“It is moving to receive this recognition. Because it belongs to the peers and that is the most valuable. Most national awards are awarded by the state and the juries do not necessarily belong to the world of the person receiving them. Here are all the representatives of the main medical institutions in the country, and my choice is a real honorGoic said of the award.