Interdisciplinaridade na formação acadêmica: percepção dos formandos em fisioterapia

Abstract

The interdisciplinary practice derives from its intercommunication among matters and specialties that generate new knowledge. Physiotherapy is undergoing transformations in its training, which leads to the need of studies about the perception of trainees concerning the interdisciplinarity. The purpose of this research is to analyze the perception of physioterapy trainees concerning the academic education with a focus on interdisciplinarity. Opened interview was used as a device to collect the data. The Content Analysis of Bardin (2011) was chosen to analysis the results. 24 trainees from a universe of 50 were interviewed, using the saturation criterion. The analyzed data indicate a education with a few or absent interaction between service professionals and teachers. Divergence of trainee’s perception is observed regarding the way of participation in interdisciplinarity activities. Barriers are pointed in the relationship between service professionals, trainees and teachers in different levels in the practice of teaching-service interaction, scant experiences of interdisciplinarity practice in education and many comprehensions about interdisciplinarity concept.