A educação interprofissional na formação em saúde da Paraíba

Abstract

Health care experiences a complex context of new circumstances of vulnerability in health. Interprofessional Education (IPE) stands out as a strategy that can promote a reformulation and regulation of the professional activity with a disposition for collaboration between different professional categories in the service. The aim was to understand the perception of students about training to work in the SUS and investigate experiences and experiences in training, from the perspective of interprofessionalism and collaborative practices in a team. This is an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out with students enrolled in the last period of the Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Social Work courses of two Public Education Institutions in northeastern Brazil. The focus group was used as a technique for collecting empirical data, which were transcribed and analyzed from the perspective of thematic content analysis. The study followed the ethical precepts set out in Resolution 466/2012 of the National Health Council, approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Paraíba under opinion number 3,222,362. The potential of supervised internships as learning scenarios for IPE was observed. Students reported that through teamwork it was possible to learn with, about each other and among themselves. The students highlighted weaknesses in training, which point to the need to institutionalize the EIP in the curricula, permanent education movement in health and teacher development. It is concluded that there are important gaps in training for the achievement of interprofessional training, and despite the potential learning spaces for the EIP, others must be intentionally created in the training path for learning with, about others and among themselves in the direction of production of care in the Unified Health System.