PET-Health/GraduaSUS: retrospective, differentials and panorama of project distribution

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze the most recent edition of the Program of Education for Work for Health –  PET-Health/GraduaSUS, rescuing its antecedents,  establishing a comparison with the previous editions and describing the distribution scenario of the approved projects. For this purpose, a documentary  appreciation of the eight notices of the program was carried out and descriptive statistical analysis of  secondary data available in the PET-Health Management Information System. As differentials of  the GraduaSUS edition, it is mentioned the  stimulation to the most active participation of the  health services in the definition and coordination of  the actions to be implemented by the tutorial groups  as well as the teacher and preceptory development.  The distribution panorama of the approved projects,  with number of groups and scholarship holders,  follows the scenario of concentration of higher  education institutions between the Brazilian regions  and states. It was verified that the PET-Health/GraduaSUS has added undergraduate courses  of different categories, apportioning and/or xpanding the participation of those still little inserted in the scenarios of Primary Care, and mobilized the inclusion of a significant number of volunteers and partnerships between education institutions located in the same  territory of activity.