Role-Play as a Pedagogical Strategy to Problematize the Lines of Comprehensive Health Care for Adolescents and Young People

ABSTRACT

Faced with the need to integrate the gender and sexuality debate into medical training, a Public Health curricular unit from a Federal Public Medicine course proposed the Project Based Learning (PjBL) methodology as a resource for the implementation of this debate. In this pedagogical proposal, the students construct a final product as a resource for intervention/improvement of reality. Thus, the methodology of Problematization, with the Arch of Maguerez, supported the consolidation of these products. Each of these projects was based on one of the public policies that are related to the debate of gender and sexuality. In this article, we report the project related to the public policy of Comprehensive Health Care for Adolescents and Young People in Health Promotion, Protection and Recovery. The presentation of this product was made using the methodology of role-play, with three scenarios, for intervention/improvement in the observed/lived reality. This experience also won the award for best work presented that year at the Brazilian Congress of Medical Education, building a formal space for the development of gender and sexuality determined competencies in the Medical School, to ensure comprehensive and equal medical practice. Moreover, this report highlights the relevance of the use of active methodologies, such as PjBL and role-play, in medical education.

Medical Education; Project-Based Learning; Role-Play; Public Policy; Comprehensive Health Care; Adolescent