Abstract
Interdisciplinarity is presented as a challenge and a need of the health sector, with a view to redirect the health care model. This study aimed to unveil the understanding the coordinators of undergraduate programs in Pharmacy in Midwestern Brazil have of interdisciplinarity in training pharmacists. A qualitative approach was used in the methodological fundamentals of the phenomenology, pursuant to the mode of the phenomenon. A total of 16 testimonials were collected between June 2011 and April 2012, which were then submitted to description, reduction, and phenomenological interpretation in order to reach knowledge on the phenomenon studied. Results were built based on ideographic and nomothetic analyses of the testimonials, from which 12 topics grouped into three main categories emerged: curriculum interdisciplinary, interdisciplinary in training the pharmacists, and interdisciplinarity in the pharmacist's role in the health system. Some of the results that were obtained point to the need to better understand how interdisciplinary converses with the Pharmacy curriculum and overcoming technical and political obstacles that prevent the practice of effective interdisciplinary in the training of pharmacists, including the lack of training for faculty and competition for power among areas.
Keywords
Education in pharmacy; curriculum; interdisciplinarity; national curriculum guidelines