In addition to being a working tool to provide care to people, domiciliary visits can also be used as a teaching strategy in the health area. An exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative study was carried out among eight physiotherapy interns making domiciliary visits at a Family Health Strategy unit and aimed to understand the meanings attributed to this type of health care activity in their learning process. The study used the focal group technique, which was recorded and transcribed for further data analysis and interpretation by means of a thematic analysis, which gave rise to three guiding themes: The experience of the domiciliary visits in primary care and the reorientation of the vocational training of the physical therapist; basic care and domiciliary visits in terms of the humanization of the physical therapy activity; and the reinterpretation of domiciliary visits in building learning. It is concluded that domiciliary visits are an important educational tool in the physiotherapy students' learning process; however, to effectively bring change to the training and health care models, it must be combined with other activities in the care network, such as group activities, participation in campaigns and joint efforts in health and in the local health board, among others.
domiciliary visit; learning; physiotherapy; primary health care