TITLE:
Pró-Saúde and PET-Saúde in the Context of Reorientation Policy of Health Professions Training
AUTHORS:
Ana Maria Gomes dos Santos, Maria José Medeiros da Fonseca, Fernanda Fayane C. Belarmino, Adriana Vitória dos Santos, Fábia Barbosa de Andrade
KEYWORDS:
Health Education, Education, Community, Learning, Students, Family Health
JOURNAL NAME:
Health,
Vol.7 No.13,
December
31,
2015
ABSTRACT: The health education has been a topic discussed throughout Brazil, as the country is experiencing a period of expansion of higher education and it needs to give quality. So they were implanted two federal programs to allow that health students to approach their professional reality to make them capable of full mode. The paper aims to discuss the experience of the participating members of these programs for professional reorientation. The study is exploratory and descriptive conducted with participants of the programs in the city of Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, in the year 2014. This study aims to present an experience report from the experience of the mentors in Reorientation National Program for Health Professional Training (Pró-Saúde), associated with the Labor Education Program for Health (PET-Saúde) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)/Sciences College of Trairi (FACISA), with emphasis on the reorientation of professional practice, provided by integrating teaching-service and community as well as exchange of knowledge between tutors, mentors and students participating in the project, from the development of interdisciplinary activities, giving the opportunity to reflect on these actions and services offered based on the epidemiological analysis provided by research, intervening in this reality.