Desenvolvimento discente no estágio em Estratégia Saúde da Família

Abstract

The medical formation includes as a graduation’s integrating clerkship, curriculum mandatory in-service training. The Family Health Strategy (ESF) clerkship was implanted in January 2007 and it was offered in the first year of internship, during the tenth period of the Federal University of Alagoas’ School of Medicine (FAMED -UFAL). This study aims to analyze the development of students for Basic Atention during internship in ESF under FAMED-UFAL students' perceptions, it was structured as a qualitative research with an explanatory case study. Data collection was conducted through focus group technique and treated using the content analysis tool proposed by Bardin. Four thematic categories emerged: autonomy as recognition of value; relationship with users and professionals from the service; medical student frustration about the health services reality; skills and abilities acquisition during the clerkship. Many of the factors analyzed are required to compose a comprehensive framework for specific skills and abilities development, predicted in the DCN. In the end, we understand that it is up to medical schools continue to think about the formation process of their graduating students.