Upon graduation in the public health physician have developed skills in planning, evaluation and management in the health sector. However, academic education has become distant from formative practices which bring the health professional closer to individuals and their particularities, as well as to families and communities, in other words to lived experience. The central theme of this paper focuses on a pedagogical proposal that seeks to bring medical students closer to the field of practices, and involved students from the third year of the graduate course in Collective Health and at the Rio Grande do Sul Federal University (UFRGS). The paper places an emphasis on teaching methods and their results over a period of six semesters. The discussion about the students’ proposals for interventions in health promotion and education in different territories leads to a reflection on the problematization of the role of public health physicians as agents of integrated care and, above all, the possibilities for different practices in healthcare.
Keywords
Promotion; Health education; Territory; Public health physician; Education