The Family Health Strategy (FHS) has represented an important form of reorganization of primary health care (PHC) in Brazil, based on the 'territorialization' and reorganization of health care in communities, drawing on the work of professionals from different fields. In this context, the tight and continued relationship between the FHS and the community has allowed the emergence of various bioethical issues, which need to be addressed by FHS professionals with the appropriate theoretical tools. Based on these considerations, this paper aims to present elements for constructing a bioethics training process for FHS professionals, emphasizing (1) what should be addressed: bioethical issues in the FHS based on existing literature [(a) relations between professionals and users and their families, (b) relations between professionals belonging to the same team, and (c) relations between professionals and the health system], (2) how to address the issues: pedagogical assumptions and teaching and learning methods, and (3) the design of a bioethics training workshop, according to the bioethical and pedagogical assumptions presented. The propositions made in the paper may be useful for mapping the route of what is probably the greatest challenge of bioethics in the FHS/PHC: the incorporation of ethical concepts to the professional's work in order to form a basis for autonomous decisions made by the health team members.
Bioethics; Medical Education; Family Health Strategy
