This article describes a psychodrama experience - the Living Newspaper - and discusses its contributions as a teaching/learning strategy in the field of healthcare, relying on the theoretical basis provided by psychodrama, as proposed by J. L. Moreno, and on its reinterpretations for the educational field, put forth by Maria Alicia Romaña. The setting consisted of a workshop, the participants of which were healthcare and education professionals. The dynamics involved the choice of the piece of news, dramatization, insertion of the participants in the scene and intensification of the group's participation, with the audience and the setting creating new versions of the news. The discussion of the experience emphasized the levels of analysis of the issue at hand: individual, group-based and social; the interdisciplinary dimensions that comprise the educational arenas; the possibilities offered by this strategy, in that it deals with cognitive, emotional and attitudinal components; and fostering a better understanding of the teaching-learning situation.
Health professional education; living newspaper; learning-teaching; pedagogical psycodrama; health education