Perspectivas de estudantes de medicina sobra sua formação e competências para trabalhar com populações indígenas

Abstract

Objective: To describe the profile of medical students at universities in Santa Catarina and analyze which skills they describe as necessary to medical care for the indigenous population. Method: Mixed research, with a cross-sectional quantitative approach and an exploratory qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted through an online questionnaire with medical students from the State of Santa Catarina. Quantitative data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and content analysis was used for qualitative data. Results: In the profile, a predominance of women (66.95%) was identified, the mean age of 24.47 years (± 5.35), and 83.26% was self-declared white race/color. In addition, 76.99% of students were born in the southern region of Brazil, 41.43% are taking the basic cycle of the course; and 45.61% did not enter by quota, about income, 52.3% of students have a family income of up to five minimum wages. The categories that emerged from the analysis were Communicative Skills: the ability to build a good doctor-patient relationship and to communicate [...], Empathy: [...] willingness to look at the individual through their experiences and use this to help treatment, Cultural aspects: anthropological and cultural knowledge of the community to which assistance is provided [...], Social determinants: […] understanding of the specific vulnerabilities of this population. Final considerations: This article allowed us to reflect on the study of plurality about health and disease processes relating to indigenous health and analyzed who the students are and how indigenous health and medical skills to take care of this population are being addressed during training in the state of Santa Catarina.