Estágio de vivência no SUS de Alagoas: contribuição para a formação do profissional da saúde

Abstract

The Guidelines for National Curriculum Courses for Health, define that training should be guided by the effective Health System, within the reality of the population, for the performance of the SUS to have quality and resolve. One of the ways to assist this is to give students experience in the reality the SUS in respect to its users. The study seeks to investigate the contribution of Stage of Experience in the SUS of Alagoas for training in accordance with the curriculum guidelines. The Experience was performed by the Department of Public Health UFAL, in partnership with bodies of the SUS of Alagoas and the Ministry of Health in February and March 2007, with the participation of 36 students distributed amongst courses of nursing, medicine, nutrition, dentistry, psychology, social work and computer science. A qualitative research methodology was used, through the method of content analysis. The categories emerging from this study were: Perception of the quality of care and Professional behaviour in the services; Interaction with professionals in individual and team activities; Interaction with the community; Knowledge about the services offered, the functioning, organization and administration of the SUS; Knowledge of the social reality, economic, cultural and health of the population and Knowledge and recognition of the importance of intersectorial articulation. The results indicate that such experiences for training in accordance with the curriculum guidelines have a contribution but it is necessary to strengthen the articulation between educational and service institutions, creating effective actions in the fields of education, care, management and social control of health which impact on the care needs of the population.