Os legados do ver-sus e do pet-saúde: desafios e possibilidades para educação e(trans)formação interprofissional em saúde

Abstract

The objective is to analyze the perception of the participants of the Project Experiences and Internships in the Reality of the Unified Health System (VER-SUS) and of the Education Program for Work for Health (PET-Saúde), about the challenges and possibilities for education and interprofessional training in health. Methodology: This was a descriptive, exploratory research, in a qualitative approach, which used Paulo Freire's problematization and critical pedagogy as an epistemological and analytical axis. In all, 7 students from the Nursing, Medicine, Physical Education, and Psychology courses and 2 Nutrition and Psychology professionals from the aforementioned institutions, who participated in the VER-SUS project or in the PET-Saúde program as students, were interviewed. As a data collection technique, an interview accompanied by a semistructured form was used. The analysis of qualitative data was carried out using the methodological framework of Bardin's Content Analysis, in the Thematic Categorical Analysis modality. Ethically, Resolutions No. 466/2012 and No. 510/2016 were respected. Results: from the speeches of the participants, three essential categories were listed: "Critical sense and abstraction about experiences", "Health communication as a foundation for interprofessionalism" and "Practical experiences as a differential in health education?". The three categories that were highlighted in the students' statements put practical experiences, communication and critical thinking about reality on the agenda. It is noticed that these initiatives instigate the necessary and still rare awareness that learning can and should be transdisciplinary, going between and beyond training itineraries and reflecting on the importance of a work that goes beyond the barriers of Higher Education Institutions. The approach to these themes was highlighted by research participants as only worked during the experience in both projects, demonstrating a real weakness in the focus on interdisciplinarity during academic training in the classroom. It is imperative the need for reorientation devices for academic training that enable experiences, discussions and, at times, displacement from the usual reality of students in the health area, because, as observed during the research, the reflection on their social role as citizens provokes greater critical sense to students, and ends up expanding as a responsibility for the professional future. Training for the Unified Health System has proved to be a challenge, since, in turn, the university also demonstrates precariousness in training for the community, based on SUS principles and guidelines.