Analysis on assessment formats of the Teaching Development Program (TDP) of Marília Medical School with regard to continuing education shows the following weaknesses: poor motivation, passive attitudes among participants and little interest in training for the tutorial process. Given the need for innovative strategies for teacher training, it was decided to use role-playing techniques in workshops. This enabled exchanges of roles and learning in action. The teacher's discourse relating to the use of role-playing in the workshops developed was qualitatively analyzed according to the narratives of the assessment formats applied. The core meanings of the responses were classified into thematic units. The results demonstrated that these activities were relevant and that role-playing was an important facilitator of the learning process insofar as the tutor was placed as a protagonist for the students' roles, thereby encouraging new perspectives and perceptions and sensitizing students towards the tutorial process.
Higher education; Inservice teaching education; Problem-based learning; Preceptorship; Roleplaying
