Extensionist experience of undergraduate students in medicine as part of the Mais Médicos para o Brasil [more doctors for Brazil] program

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ID19539487
AuthorsJucier Gonçalves Júnior (0000-0001-5077-7959, Universidade de São Paulo), Sarah Cavalcante Brandão (0000-0003-0803-5075, Universidade Federal do Cariri), Sandra Barreto Fernandes da Silva (0000-0003-2387-1696, Universidade Federal do Cariri), Emmanuela Quental Callou de Sá (0000-0001-6932-2444, Universidade Federal do Cariri)
Year2021
Volume16
Issue43
Pages2528
Publication date2021-05-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-5909 • E-ISSN: 2179-7994
PublisherSociedade Brasileira de Medicina de Familia e Comunidade (SBMFC) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5712/rbmfc16(43)2528
OpenAlexW3170313052
LanguageEN
References cited7

Problem: The new National Curriculum Guidelines of Undergraduate Medicine in Brazil propose that academics have contact with the health system and its users at an early stage. However, practical activities in undergraduate courses proved to be insufficient for the adequate development of this new perspective. Consequently, the experiences of university extension have the proposal to fill in this gap. Method: This article aimed to report the experiences of the scholarship holders of the Extension Project in Family and Community Medicine - ProMFC (Projeto de Extensão em Medicina de Família e Comunidade) under the More Doctors for Brazil Program – PMMB (Programa Mais Médicos para o Brasil). This is a qualitative, experience-type study with lexical and content analysis from the software IRaMutTeQ, version 0.7 alpha 2, to establish an association between the terms used in the discourse of the ProMFC. Results: The opportunity to immerse in environments in which students can learn about the problems and share the daily life of the assisted community was highlighted. The exchange of knowledge and experiences among students, physicians working in Primary Health Care (fellows of the PMMB, supervisors and tutors) and local managers was also relevant, as well as the students’ ability to develop/train skills, such as teamwork, assertive communication, and health planning. Conclusion: The PMMB, tutored and integrated into an extension project, the ProMFC, is an alternative that, although embryonic, has many potentialities, as it allows the extensionists to be early inserted into the Attention Primary Health Care

Assertiveness · Curriculum · Management · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Scholarship · Teamwork · Global Health and Surgery · Global Health Workforce Issues · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology

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