ABSTRACT
The implementation of the Unified Health System guided the emergence of human resources qualification processes in health, which generated the need to construct the curricular conceptions in the field of health education in Brazil. Thus, the field of Collective Health (SC) emerges as a useful tool in the development of the multireferential discussion on health, in the field of education, training ad work. This study aimed to analyze the perception of teachers of the medical course of a Public University of Ceará on the challenges of medical training in Collective Health. This is a case study with a qualitative approach, based on the focus group technique. A focus group session was held with four professors from the disciplines of the Collective Health area, the qualitative material being organized into categories and processed through the Thematic Analysis. After analysis emerged the categories: students’ preconceptions about collective health; infrastructure and preparation for use of active methodologies; dialogue among the teachers of the disciplines of the collective health axis; interlocution between medical theory and practice; active role of the learner in learning; interdisciplinarity. The teachers pointed out the prejudice at the beginning of the course, and the new didactic-pedagogical strategies, based on active methodologies, are fundamental and more attractive and appropriate to the current social context, stimulating the search for knowledge, and improving the student-teacher relationship. In addition, they recognized the existence of specific factors of the medical course that hinder the applicability of didactic-pedagogical strategies: fragility of the pedagogical formation of a large part of the teaching staff for the teaching exercise, due to the inexistence of a Permanent Education Policy and the structure physics. It ratifies the importance of the disciplines of the Collective Health for the training of the doctor in this area with regard to the competencies proposed in the light of the 2014 DCN, corroborating to the physician’s action and to his organization as part of a health team . Thus, it is evident that, in order to qualify the medical training, inexorably, one cannot do without the insertion of Collective Health in the Curricular Matrix of the Course. For this to occur, it becomes imperative that the theoretical content be linked to the current social and technological context, based on active learning methodologies.
Higher Education; Medical Training; Unified Health System; Collective Health