A integralidade na formação dos profissionais de saúde: tecendo saberes e práticas

Abstract

The integral healthcare, one of the doctrinal principles of the Brazilian health care system, establishes one of the main ways to reach high-quality and humanized care. The Single Health System must command the training of human resources in the health area. Therefore, the integration between Health and Education fields become necessary in order to attain the training of professionals really committed to the communities’ needs. The present work aims to make an analysis of the perception of teachers who are involved in undergraduate courses that train health professionals at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, when it comes to integrity-oriented training. It´s a qualitative research, in which the semi-structured interview technique with teachers from the related courses was used. The thematic analysis is suggested as the data analysis method. These are the categories which have been analyzed in the study: the recommendations set by the Ministries of Education and Health as guidelines for health training; the curriculum - dialogues between the past and the present; the principles of the Single Health System guiding the training. The study results indicate that the teachers express an involvement with the proposals of the curricular reform, in the sense of the incorporation of the Brazilian Health Reform values, in the context of the health training necessary changes.