Educação interprofissional nos cursos de graduação em saúde: contribuições, desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

Interprofessional education (IPE) consists of a collective articulation strategy in which a reciprocal relationship is established between actions and services performed by different professionals. In practice, however, there is a deficit in the recognition of the institutions involved about their role as protagonists of curricular practices with regard to interprofessionality. In view of this, it was proposed an integrative literature review in order to answer the following questions: “what are the contributions of IPE to health work?”, “what are the challenges faced for the application of this teaching model in higher education institutions?" and “what are the ways to apply interprofessionality in undergraduate health courses?”. For this, articles published in the LILACS database of the last 5 years, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, were consulted. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 20 articles that contributed to answering the research questions were analyzed, in addition to the main information about the year of publication, title, journal and authors. The concept of interprofessionality was present in 16 of these, the most used being that of WHO. As contributions, the authors point out IPE from perspectives that converge to the development of collaborative skills, practices and articulations. In spite of this, the challenges faced for the application of IPE are innumerable and move over historical, personal, professional, social and institutional aspects, reinforcing the urgency for spaces for reflection, discussion and planning about health education. Finally, considering the immense transformative potential of IPE in training, professional and social environments, it is necessary to encourage these practices, in addition to more studies that make it possible to understand the actions and successes of IPE in undergraduate health courses.