A educação interprofissional e o Pró PET-Saúde USP-Capital 2012/2014: a percepção de tutores, preceptores e estudantes

Abstract

For the last thirty years, healthcare researchers were giving special attention to the interprofessional education subject (IPE), for it being related to a more positive feedback from the user and a more accurate and satisfactory health care assistance. The need to adopt the IPE as a tool for the formation of professionals on the health area comes from moment where we realize that our health system is delivering a fragmented and less accurate health care. Nowadays, scientific studies show that collaborative practice and the quality of the offered care is more likely if professionals work in a team with common aim, being necessary to develop interprofessional communication skills and collaborative practice since the beginning of the course. Thus, this study took as investigation object the interprofessional education, in the context of the primary health care and the perspective of the integration between education and the public health services, through the program Pró PET-Saúde USP-Capital 2012/2014. The choice of the program for this study was due the interprofessional nature of the project, since it includes students, preceptors and tutors from many healthcare courses and for it being structured in a privileged space for learning and improvement in health training, promoting development to other interprofessional initiatives at Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Data collection occurred in two ways, the first one being through an individual questionnaire with quotes from the book of Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" designed for the students who attended to the program, another individual questionnaire intended for health professionals (preceptors) and an interview script destined the professors (tutors) who participated on the program. The data collected were analyzed by the researcher using the thematic analysis proposed by Minayo. Results show that likewise the character Alice from "Alice in wonderland", often we get confused about which options should we chose in order to improve our health training. If we don't know where we want to get to, any path would suffice, however, evidences show that a choice for an opportunity in interprofessional education while in health training could minimize the stereotypes and prejudices formed by students in relation to other professional categories and develop interprofessional communication abilities and conflict management, which will contribute to a collaborative practice and a better health care. As result of the professional master's degree, it was developed a class plan for the students at USP in order to problematize and allow a brief interprofessional education experience.