A formação em medicina para Atenção Primária à Saúde em uma universidade pública no Amazonas

Abstract

Evaluate the training process of medical students to work in the Primary Health Care at a public university in Amazonas. Method: Study documentary, descriptive and exploratory, with a quantitative approach, carried out at the University of the State of Amazonas (UEA), in the Unit of the Higher School of Health Sciences (ESA). The documents selected for the research included the Pedagogical Project of the Medicine (PPC) and the Teaching Plans of compulsory undergraduate subjects. The data were analyzed using simple descriptive statistics. Results: 6 were listed doctor's skills according to the National Primary Care Policy (PNAB), and 15 competences listed in the PPC regarding the training profile of graduates in medicine. Only one competence of the PNAB was not contemplated in the PPC and in the course disciplines. In the Teaching Plans it was possible to verify that, of the 55 compulsory disciplines of the course, 23 address APS contents. Theoretical activities are the most discussed during the entire undergraduate course, and that 10.3% of the total workload of the medical course is dedicated to APS, 22% of the time during periods in which there are still activities of a nature theoretical. Conclusion: This study points to the possibility of advances in the process of physician training, proposing the inclusion of students in PHC from the earliest periods, where the scenario for a humanist, critical and reflective formation is, without a doubt, the APS