KEY-WORDS:Medicine; Patients;Curriculum. ABSTRACT The new Doctor-Patient Relationship paradigm presumes that the patient seeks the doctor not only when needing to cure a defined disease but for relieving suffering in general terms. This paper aims to establish a reference for how to draw the attention of the student to this relationship in the literature, placing it into the context of the programmatic content developed in the School of Medicine of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Pernambuco (FMS/UPE