Perception about the Medical Internship at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro by the Service’s Preceptors in Primary Health Care: a Case Study

Abstract

Introduction: A preceptor is understood as a health care professional with an important role in introducing students and recently graduated doctors into professional practice. However, studies into medical teaching in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) have shown inadequacies in the quality, training and time spent by the tutors with students. In the municipality of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), the expansion of the FHS was belated, resulting in a vacuum of medical students being inserted into the network. Objective: To understand the perception of Family Health Strategy physician preceptors regarding their performance with medical student interns from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Methods KEYWORDS-Medical Education.-Preceptorship.-Internship and Residency.-Medicine.

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“…The preceptor is referred to as a health service professional, who accompanies the apprentice, and has an essential role in the insertion of the student or resident in professional practice and in their training process (Oliveira et al, 2017).…”

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