Dr. Alejandro Goic Goic, National Medicine Award 2006, dies

The Medical College and the University of Chile have expressed their regret for the death of Alejandro Goic Goic, a remarkable academic and winner of the 2006 National Prize for Medicine.

Ennio Vivaldi, rector of the University of Chile, reported the news and referred to the event, calling it “a great loss for the university, for science and for the country ”.

“His legacy will endure in the college halls, where today many of his disciples are training new generations of health professionals for Chile.“Vivaldi said about the graduate and professor at the Casa de Bello School of Medicine.

Meanwhile, from the Medical College, stressed that Goic “contributed to the progress of medicine especially in the internal field and training”.

“He has received recognition from his colleagues and students and has been actively involved in most of the innovative processes that have taken place in Chilean medicine in recent decades,” the union said.

Colmed President Izkia Siches, in turn, said that “a master of Chilean medicine is dying, a humanist doctor who has always reflected on the challenges of the profession and has accompanied us for so many generations in learning medical semiology. The Chilean medical community dismisses him with regret. “

Goic was, among other relevant positions, director of 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 Medical Faculties for three years, president of the Chilean Academy of Medicine and chair of the Clinical Ethics Study Group of the Medical Society of Santiago.

In early March 2006, a jury chaired by Dr. Octavio Enríquez, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Concepción and president of the National Court of Ethics of the College of Medicine, agreed to award Alejandro Goic Goic the National Prize for Medicine.

“A university professor and medical educator, he had a remarkable professional and academic career, having has contributed to the progress and prestige of medicine in the country, especially in the field of internal medicine and medical training. He played an important role in improving scientific medical journals and was not indifferent to the country’s public health issues. More, has been a promoter of the humanistic and ethical aspects of medicine, publishing articles and books on these issues“They stressed when they reported the recognition.

“It is very exciting to receive this recognition. Because it belongs to colleagues and it is the most valuable. Most national awards are given by the state, and juries do not necessarily belong to the world of the recipient. Here are all the representatives of the main medical institutions in the country and my choice is a real honorGoic said of the award.