O PET-Saúde e a formação dos estudantes na visão dos tutores

Abstract

Government initiatives have been proposed since 2005 aimed at reversing the inadequacy of training models still fragmented and strongly hegemonic to face the current challenges of health care and the needs of the Unified Health System (SUS). The Education Program for Working for Health (PETHealth) is one of these initiatives has as main concept the formation of tutorial groups that will contribute to the development of human resources with adequate profile to the training needs expressed in the country's health policies and to face the different realities of life and health of the population. Because of the development of this program at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) since its inception in 2008 without there being an evaluation of its results gave rise to the research project "Impact Assessment of PROHealth Programs and PET-Health in courses Graduation healthcare UFG". This study aimed to describe the PET-Health contribution to the training of professionals of the health courses at the Federal University of Goiás, in the view of the tutors. Research with descriptive approach, using an electronic form for data collection, containing ten essay questions. Form was answered by 16 tutors who acted in the PET-Health 2008-2013 (response rate 57%). Data analysis was performed using content analysis which yielded a total of four axes, twelve categories and thirty-five subcategories. It was found that PET-Health positively influenced in building a more complete training, bringing innovation to work in multidisciplinary groups in graduation through coexistence, interdisciplinary with students from other courses in comprehensive of attention care, innovation of educational strategies in the SUS understanding of change and amplitude the concept of health. It also brought some negatives especially in relation to the amount of bags for preceptors and the hours available for scholarship students to carry out their activities. It was concluded that it is a challenge to implement all the ideals of PET-Health but it is possible. The program proposals have openness to dialogue spaces where students develop the perception of daily life and the complexities of the service. For tutors, PET-Health leverages the work so that the pedagogical perspective and integrative motivation actions of teaching - service - community expand to other students from various courses and periodicity levels, continuously, regular, full and nice.