PET-Health/GraduaSUS in the perspective of service and teaching actors: contributions, limits, and suggestions

Abstract

This manuscript presents the results of an online survey conducted with the project and group coordinators of the GraduaSUS edition of the Program of Education for Work for Health – PET-Health, which sought to identify the results achieved and to point out the limits and contributions to the production of changes. The survey was conducted in March and April 2018, with 445 coordinators, whose quantitative data were treated statistically and the qualitative ones by content analysis, giving rise to four categories: Positive repercussions of PET-Health/GraduaSUS; The negative aspects of PET-Health/GraduaSUS; The coordination of the projects by the health service: controversial point; and Suggestions for changes. It was found that the PET-Health/GraduaSUS contributed to the professional development, expansion and diversification of the learning scenarios, strengthening Primary Care and interprofessional education in the curricula and benefited the local community. The main positive aspects of the edition were the coordination of the project by the health service and the reports of experiences in the community of practices; already the numerical and uniprofessional composition of the groups was pointed as negative aspect.