Aspects of the Inter Professional Learning Process of Medical Students Involved in a Family Health Unit

Abstract

A new perspective for health completeness, for different knowledges and practices and the development of new dimensions of care needed to work inside multidisciplinary teams in the Sistema único de Saúde (SUS) led to the search for new forms of training, with the support of Brazilian National Curriculum Guidelines ( Brasil. Ministério da Educacao-MS, 2001 ) . This study evaluates aspects of the interprofessional way of teaching and integration of students from the medical school at Sao Paulo City University, employing a weekly qualitative analysis evaluation (cards) of students and the half-yearly narratives on practices (2008-2012). The speeches of the students showed positive feelings (95%) related to practice. The core ideas were “motivation” (50.84%), “teamwork” and “interprofessional relations” (74%). The analysis of the narratives identified the “community people” as the most affecting the students, followed by the physician figure (due to their own professional option). The medical care was the activity that mostly involved the students.