RESUMO Introdução: Na literatura, diversos artigos apresentam a satisfação dos pacientes e a melhor clareza de entendimento acerca das informações transmitidas pela equipe médica, com o auxílio de peças tridimensionais. A educação e a saúde são práticas inseparáveis e interdependentes, sempre estiveram articuladas, consideradas elementos fundamentais no processo de atuação dos profissionais da saúde. Assim, professores e alunos do curso de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco criaram uma extensão universitária, que objetivava o uso de modelos anatômicos, impressos em 3D, para educação dos pacientes do ambulatório de ortopedia e traumatologia. Relato de experiência: Ao longo dos seis meses de projeto, foram assistidos 77 pacientes, e o projeto contou com o trabalho de três professores e 18 alunos da graduação, totalizando 98 pessoas envolvidas no projeto. As ações foram divididas em dois blocos. O primeiro consistiu na capacitação dos alunos. No segundo, os discentes realizavam visitas ao ambulatório, acompanhados por um médico especialista responsável, usavam peças impressas pelos próprios alunos, para orientar os pacientes quanto à sua respectiva condição, e davam orientações sobre a terapêutica valendo-se dessas peças impressas. Discussão: A possibilidade de utilização dessa ferramenta como auxílio na comunicação médica abre um vasto horizonte de aplicação da impressão 3D na educação popular em saúde. Isso, por sua vez, propicia o aperfeiçoamento da promoção da saúde de regiões menos desenvolvidas, uma vez que essa interação entre equipe de saúde e comunidade permite a promoção, a proteção e a recuperação da saúde, a partir de um diálogo horizontal, valorizando e respeitando o usuário do sistema de saúde, de maneira a torná-lo agente e protagonista do processo saúde e doença. Conclusão: Projetos de extensão desse tipo têm um enorme potencial para gerar impactos na medicina, na comunidade acadêmica e na população assistida, sobretudo a menos instruída.

Effective communication between doctors and patients is essential for treatment adherence and better clinical outcomes. Although 3D printing has advanced in medicine, its impact on doctor-patient communication still requires further investigation. This randomized clinical trial evaluated the effectiveness of 3D anatomical models as a tool to facilitate communication in orthopedic consultations. This randomized clinical trial was conducted between May 2024 and September 2024, with 46 patients randomized into two groups: 21 patients received medical explanations with the aid of 3D models, and 25 without. Patients' knowledge was assessed before and after the consultation, and the quality of communication was measured using the Communication Assessment Tool (CAT). In the group using 3D models, 76.19% of patients reported improved knowledge of their conditions, while in the group without models, the increase was 52.00%. Additionally, 14 out of 15 CAT parameters showed statistically significant differences between the groups, with p-values ranging from 0.001 to 0.021. The use of 3D models significantly improved patients' understanding and facilitated communication with doctors, proving to be an effective tool for explaining complex medical conditions.

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Introduction: In the literature, several articles demonstrate patient satisfaction and better understanding of the information transmitted by the medical team, with the aid of three-dimensional pieces. Education and health are inseparable and interdependent practices, they have always been articulated, and considered crucial elements in the action process of health professionals. Thus, teachers and students of the medicine course at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco created a university extension project that aimed at the use of anatomical models printed in 3D, for the education of patients in the orthopedics and traumatology outpatient clinic. Experience Report: Over the six months of the project, 77 patients were assisted and the project employed the work of 3 teachers and 18 undergraduate students, totaling 98 people involved in the project. The actions were divided into 2 blocks: the first consisted of training the students and, in the second, the students visited the outpatient clinic, accompanied by a specialist physician in charge and used pieces printed by the students themselves, to guide the patients regarding their respective condition and provided guidance on therapy using these printed pieces. Discussion: the possibility of using this tool as an aid in medical communication opens up a vast horizon of application of 3D printing in health education. This, in turn, favors the improvement of health promotion in less developed regions, since this interaction between the health team and the community allows the promotion, protection and recovery of health, based on a horizontal dialogue, valuing and respecting the users of the health system, aiming to make them an agent and protagonist of the health and disease process. Conclusion: It can be concluded, therefore, that extension projects such as this one have enormous potential to generate impacts on medicine, the academic community and the assisted population, especially the less educated ones.