Educação popular na graduação em medicina: aprendizados, desafios e possibilidades

Abstract

The Popular Education speaks of a political-pedagogical path that requires the involvement and co-responsibility of all participants in the construction, ownership and multiplication of knowledge. It offers an instrumental for the development of new relationships through emphasis on dialogue, appreciation of popular knowledge and the search for insertion in local dynamics, bringing therefore a specific reference ratio and educational nuances appropriate to the health training. This study aims to analyze the merger of Popular Education in undergraduate medical UFPB, based on the experience of teachers and students participating in the Horizontal Module Practical-Integrative A1 (MHA1), to identify the lessons learned, the possibilities and the challenges of experience in context local. This is an ethnographic study, which used a qualitative approach, and the theoretical and methodological framework of the field of health education. In addition to participant observation and document research were conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with teachers and students. Data analysis revealed that the module has been established as a potent strategy in favor of training students in critical perspective, ethical and emancipatory, contributing, among other factors, to group work learning and the development of communication skills, interpersonal and dimensions such as accountability, commitment and connection between students and residents. The survey also revealed limits in the process of incorporation of EP graduation, namely: theoretical and political-pedagogical clashes between teachers; low workload contracted teachers, lack of identification of teachers and students with the political and philosophical values of EP and lack of theoretical debate about the best educational paths guided by integrity.