Desafios e possibilidades no exercício da preceptoria do PRÓ-PET-Saúde

Abstract

This Final Paper presents an article entitled "Challenges and Possibilities in the Practice of the Preceptory of PET-PRO-HEALTH", which aim was to analyze the challenges and possibilities in both the preceptory of the Professional Reorientation Program and the Work for Health Education Program (HEALTH-PRO-PET) in the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL). The semistructured interview for data collection and content analysis to interpret them were the means applied. Among the challenges, the results showed: a pedagogical unpreparedness in working with groups making use of active methodologies; developing research; the challenge of the interprofessional work (TIP); infrastructure drawbacks; lack of motivation within the community, and difficulties in managing the process, including syllabus incompatibility, preceptory devaluation, and little cooperation from other service professionals. Interprofessional Working (TIP); personal and professional growth; rethinking of the practices and contribution to training process were among the possibilities. In addition to the need of training professionals to be preceptors, it emerged from the research results that the strategies used by preceptors, as a way to overcome the challenges, come mainly from the teacher's own efforts; the need to strengthen the integration of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with the Municipal Health Service (SMS); and a practice which enables the participation of the teacher in the planning of actions and organizing internships in health services. Based on the survey results, a qualification course in active methodologies for public health education was organized and developed as a product of intervention which target audience were the preceptors and students of PRO-HEALTH-PET, along with a Technical Report aimed both to reveal the importance of this activity (preceptory) developed by service professionals (mentors) as agents of changing in health care practices and to provide the means for the awareness of managers regarding the importance of issues such as training, working conditions and job qualification.