Regionalization of contents of an e-learning Family Health graduate course: the Open University of Brazilian National Health System experience (UNA-SUS/FCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil

The objective of this study was to describe the process of creating the contents of the e-learning Family Health graduate course, promoted by the Open University of the Brazilian National Health System/Federal University of Porto Alegre (UNA-SUS/UFCSPA), adapted to the characteristics of each region where the course is offered. Part of this course is based on learning from complex clinical cases. Some clinical cases have been customized according to the regions of the country (North, Northeast and South) where participants exert their activities, considering epidemiological and socio-cultural characteristics of each region. Through the adaptation of 12 complex cases to the realities of the states of Pará and Sergipe, the course, although initially designed regarding the state characteristics of Rio Grande do Sul, can now be offered to those states while maintaining its characteristic of being in compliance with situations that workers experience in their daily lives.

Distance education; Family health; Graduation; Brazilian National Health System