Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
Editorial
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This is a reflection on the process of developing the curriculum for the Professional Master's Degree in Family Health course offered by Northeast Training in Family Health Network. Professors from federal and state educational and research institutions participated in this process. The construction of the curriculum, that took two years to be completed, included the creation of the Curriculum Development Group, which was put in charge of designing the course and training its professors. The steps of this process were discussed with reference to the educational bases that guided the curriculum design, with emphasis on training health professionals in the professional master's degree mode. It is hoped that the dissemination of this innovative experience within the scope of stricto sensu training will contribute to other experiences not only being designed and implemented, but also disclosed.
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The Multidisciplinary Residency in Family Health is characterized as in-service training that promotes an approximation to the reality of the Unified Health System. Although empirically it is found that there are positive results in the professional activity, there is no model to value results. This article dwells on the description and analysis of the process of adapting and validating essential structures of evaluation and their respective indicators for the construction of self-assessment models for programs aimed at multidisciplinary residency in family health. During the workshop, tools were presented to experts who were asked to make considerations about them. Their observations were analyzed and those considered relevant to the evaluation objectives accepted. The construction and validation of self-evaluation indicators for Multidisciplinary Residency in Family Health programs that were conducted signal the relevance of a proposal that goes beyond the ‘traditional’ ratings and becomes a process that is as inventive as desired for the residencies.
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A qualitative study with Family Health Strategy professionals to investigate their views and practices concerning domestic violence against children and adolescents. Data were collected between April and July 2014 using semi-structured interviews carried out at Integrated Family Health Units in João Pessoa, state of Paraíba, Brazil. The thematic analysis showed that health professionals are insecure and unprepared to deal with domestic violence against children and adolescents, a fact that causes difficulties in identifying maltreatment, making the complaint, and monitoring the victims. It highlights the importance of support from health management to protect professionals who deal with cases of violence and their training in order to facilitate the early identification and reporting of cases and effective monitoring for victims and their families.
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This study aimed to analyze the social representations of professionals working at Family Health Support Centers operating under the 4th Regional Executive Department, in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil, with regard to interdisciplinarity in their daily work. It is a qualitative study, which used participant observation techniques and semi-structured interviews with 15 professionals and coordinators to collect data. The theoretical saturation criterion was used in the sample definition. The analysis used the in-depth hermeneutics. The representations were organized in these categories: Process under construction, undertaking joint activities, and outcome of the teams’ commitment. The paths taken point to yet embryonic interdisciplinarity, the outcome of numerous factors that are intrinsic and extrinsic to the group itself. The difficulties arising from pressure imposed by management for productivity, the incipient planning, the training process that incorporates some of this perspective, and the precarious labor relations are elements that have a negative impact on the performance of interdisciplinary practices. The speeches denote endless possibilities that are built in the field of health and inspire overcoming the fragmentation of multiple knowledge that works in the collective perspective
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This article aims to review the scientific literature on the use of active learning methodologies in health education. This is a review of the literature using the Virtual Health Library database to select the articles. The survey took place from September to November 2012. Fifteen full articles were selected in the search. The results showed that using active methodologies motivates students and directs them to seek information to solve impasses and further their own development, making them realize that new learning is a necessary, significant tool to enhance their possibilities and paths. These methodologies have also contributed to changes in the health professionals’ way of thinking and acting, who started to interact in a plural space of interests, potentials, and capabilities.
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This study presents the educational concepts and practices in health of professionals in the Family Health strategy at a small city in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The survey was conducted among 18 high-level professionals, among whom physicians, nurses, and dentists, between October and December 2013. Semi-structured interviews and observation guided by ethnographic principles were used. Bardin content analysis supported the analysis of the material. The results show that the health education concepts and practices are guided by a ‘banking education’ that is based on the transmission and reproduction of knowledge. The educational activities are eminently aimed at disease prevention and conducted largely by nurses and graduate students taking internships at the Family Health Units. It was observed that the health education practiced does not instrumentalize users to develop autonomy and become the subjects of their lives and of their history.
Ensaio
Studies focused on professional training at the graduate level to work for the National Health System are scarce in Brazil. This article aims to report on the experience of building the Professional Master's Degree in Family Health offered by the Northeastern Network of Education in Family Health. It presents the background to this proposal and discusses the theoretical and methodological design that permeated the entire process. Continuing education, significant adult learning, and education concepts are discussed in the context of the creation of the Master's Degree course. It is hoped that this experience can subsidize reflections in other training contexts, knowing that it is an ongoing process and that the issues related to the design of the course and the results attained so far are part of a larger challenge, which is the education of adults.
Interview
Dr. Carlile Lavor is a physician, sanitarian, defender of the Unified Health System (SUS), a former professor at the University of Brasília, and a two-time Secretary of Health of Ceará, Brazil (1987-1988 and 2015). He was responsible for the creation of the health agents in Ceará, in 1987, forerunners of the Family Health Strategy team's community health agents. Dr. Carlile served as a consultant to the Ministry of Health of Angola in 2007/2008 and 2014 in the planning and implementation of the health agent program in that country. He also served as the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz office coordinator in Ceará from 2008 to 2014.
Experience Report
The study aimed to understand the perception Dentistry students at the Federal University of Paraíba have of the use of portfolios as one of the evaluation methods. Data were collected from 16 students in 2011 by means of the focus group technique and were analyzed based on content analysis. The themes were then defined: conceptualization, student-professor role, active methods, difficulties in preparing portfolios and suggestions. Students see portfolios as an instrument of dialog between professors and students through accounts of group experiences in the social equipment and individual reflections in the construction of concepts and theoretical deepening. It was concluded that students perceive the portfolio as a powerful, innovative tool for vocational training, serving to monitor the teaching--learning process for being dialogical, interactive,and providing opportunities for active learning.