Upon this premise, the academic institutions of the health area need to search new strategies in order to adjust the professional education of the graduates to the health system in order to ensure the delivery of quality healthcare to the population. Therefore, the health professional shall be able to create, plan, implement and evaluate policies and actions aimed at the general welfare of a particular community, and have skills that can transform technical practice in the provision of care to the several aspects of health requirements of people 2. These skills of the health professional should be developed during the undergraduate course, so that the graduates become able to expand their competencies beyond the technical-scientific domain and allow the transmission and incorporation of the learned content by the citizens, in a continuous situation of empowerment of the population 3. For acquisition of such skills and competencies, the active learning methodologies are pertinent to foster the teaching-learning process of students, in which the learners assume the role of settlors of