This article describes the guardianship experience developed in the undergraduate course of Occupational Therapy at the University of São Paulo's Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine (FMRP-USP), in the ambit of the guardianship practice models developed in health training based, specifically, on the educational and care dimensions. This is a descriptive study, in which a bibliographical survey was carried out in association to guardian reports. The results show that the experience of the ongoing construction of a course of study in higher education goes well beyond the definition of strategies for the acquisition of technical knowledge and that the training must be aimed at the full exercise of interdisciplinarity, which is necessary for the modern-day health professional, in which the places and values among its members translate into a dynamic, constantly mutant space. The guardianship experience allows for students and guardians to be acknowledged as subjects who are active in the training process, which goes through alterity, through the legitimation of the voice that is given to each one of the parts, through the perception of the fact that knowledge can and must be built in a more horizontal relationship among its players.
occupational therapy; guardianship; training in health
