Partnership between academia and service: Challenges of agreements

Abstract

Introduction: In order to overcome the traditional curricular models in Nursing and Medicine courses, one of the proposals has been to organize the training based on an integrated curriculum and active teaching-learning methodologies. The teaching-service partnership has proven to be an important strategy for the implementation of this curricular organization, being supported in the proposals of the National Curricular Guidelines. Thus, it is important to understand the processes involved in forming partnerships with health services. Objective: to analyze the construction of teaching-service partnership in Primary Health Care, in a city in the state of São Paulo, in Nursing and Medicine curricula from the perception of managers, preceptors and teachers. Method: qualitative research carried out with academy and service managers, preceptors and professors. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with eleven managers, eight professors, and nine service preceptors. Content analysis, thematic modality was used in processing the data. Results: it was identified that teaching-service partnership is essential in integrated curriculum in the dialogical competence framework and there is a need for agreements between the partners. There are challenges in building the agreements for the training and participation of professionals as preceptors. It was proposed to strengthen and consolidate the partnership by means of documents, participative management, resumption of periodic meetings, and Permanent Education in Health between the academy and the service. Conclusion: The processing of the interviews in each segment and among the researched segments (managers, preceptors, and professors), provided the opportunity to understand the perspectives in an articulated manner. The partnership is understood as something important for training in the world of work and the challenges to be faced for its consolidation involve agreements by means of participative management.