Health training in the context of UFRN: fundamental aspects of learning in interdisciplinary contexts

Abstract

In Brazil, the concern with training at the undergraduate level in the area of ​​health has been expressed in a more significant way since the late 1970s, with the growth of the sanitary movement, figuring as a strategic issue from the implementation of the Single Health System. Saúde (SUS), in the early 1990s. The analyzes showed the limits of sectoral and uniprofessional approaches and their compartmentalized solutions, in sub-areas or occupations and the imperative need to promote changes in training, in the curricula of courses and in pedagogical perspectives, for the benefit of active methodologies, with greater teaching-service interaction, interdisciplinary and multiprofessional work. This article aims to configure the contribution of teaching experiences developed within the scope of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in the processes of change in training at the undergraduate level of health courses, based on academic activities carried out in close collaboration with the students. health services and aiming at the construction of Interprofessionality. It was supported by reading documents, articles, portfolios produced on the experiences developed at UFRN, which gave rise to the curricular components Health and Citizenship I and II and the realization of several Projects in interaction with health services, with the support of Programs National reorientation of health training (PRO-Saúde, Pro-PET, PET Saúde). In 20 years of experience, among the achievements, we highlight the effective contribution to changes in professional practices in Primary Health Care services, the preparation of professionals to work more effectively in SUS networks and in line with the user needs.