Abstract
The political-pedagogical project emerges as a dynamic instrument of the changes that are desired and necessary to the training of health professionals, together with the organization of the health system and aiming at comprehensive care and at overcoming the fragmentation that is characteristic of the biomedical paradigm. This study aimed to analyze the training provided in a course on nutrition based on the students' representations about the strengths and weaknesses of the political-pedagogical project being instituted, in dialog with the one already instituted. There were focus groups with 46 students. The data collected were treated by means of content analysis, and the interpretation was subsidized by the political-pedagogical project that had already been constituted for the course. The professors' training and performance, the coordinating disciplines, the course completion project methodology, early contact with the practice, and the conducting of educational seminars emerged as the potentialities of the training process. The small number of professors trained in nutrition in the early stages of the course and the lack of contextualization of a few of the subjects were seen as weaknesses. Based on the strengths and weaknesses pointed out, it was concluded that significant progress has been made towards the desired profile for the graduates. Pursuing a teacher training process that can produce a new qualitative leap to draw the instituted and instituting closer together remains a challenge.
training in health; national curriculum guidelines; higher education