The challenge of interdisciplinary training for medical students: the Balint-Paideia groups contributions

Abstract

This article aims to analyze multidisciplinary work, through an interdisciplinary perspective in the training of medical students with Balint-Paideia groups. This is  a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory, and analytical  research. The participants were undergraduate  students who were in the collective health internship  in a Brazilian university. The interns participated in  Balint-Paideia groups while staying in family health  units. For data collected, we utilized focus groups. For  data analyses, was employed narrative construction.  The argumentative axles found potentialities and  obstacles to teamwork; the work-based training  influence for collaborative work; Balint-Paideia groups  role in the training process and in the relevant  concepts to Primary Health Care learning.  The pedagogical strategy combining Primary Health  Care practice, interprofessional experience, and Balint- Paideia groups, with a singular therapeutic project  development, although challenging, tends to  provide  a transcendent view to the strictly biomedical clinic  and to asymmetrical relationships, evoking medical  students to an interdisciplinary praxis construction.