Doctor Training for the SUS: Education and Family Health Integration – An Integrative Review

ABSTRACT

Medical education has been a recent area of study, research and new formulations, influenced by political, pedagogical, cultural and community aspects related to changes in health systems and services. Medical education has been subjected to profound criticisms about the need to diversify the teaching-learning scenarios to build up new curricula and subjects, enabling insertion into a reflective and dynamic learning process. In view of the complexity of this issue, we indicate the guidelines necessary to progress with the change process of medical training. The study was conducted using the integrative review method. Searches for articles were made with the keywords: “undergraduate education in Medicine” and “primary health care” in the Virtual Health Library, seeking to capture all the articles that address medical training for the Unified Health System (SUS). This search resulted in 14 articles, which constitute the sample of this study. For analysis and discussion of the results, the articles were categorized in terms of their objectives, methodologies, references, results, conclusions and recommendations, in two thematic categories: professional training in the SUS and medical education. Analysis of the articles suggests implementing integration of medical training with health services and participation of community organizations. This seems to constitute a central challenge in this quest for change in medical training which offers new resources to fund innovative initiatives and programs, in a scope that encompasses students, teachers and health services, and that seeks new strategies, new pedagogical technologies and curricular reforms.

Professional Training in the SUS; Medical Education; Family Health