A PECULIAR PRACTICE FIELD IN A FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The Family Medicine Residency from the Secretaria Municipal de Curitiba has a practice field at the Consultório na Rua (CnaR), which sets up a space to experience the peculiar reality of homeless people. The CnaR offers services in convergence with the policies of primary care and the logic of harm reduction, legitimately taking responsibility for promoting equity. The partnership with CnaR aims to increase the integration of services provided by primary health care and strengthen the attachment between health professionals and the public. METHODOLOGY Residents accompany the multidisciplinary teams of CnaR, which provide an itinerant and comprehensive health care for homeless people, and deals daily with different problems and health needs of this population, developing shared actions with settings of psychosocial care. At this practice field, residents learn how important it is to sensitize this particular population about self-care. Moreover, the residents get to understand that building an attachment bond with each patient is indispensable to create a relationship of mutual trust, through which it is possible to promote social recovery, always respecting the uniqueness of each one. CONCLUSION Much more than attending homeless people, CnaR teams embrace and return them the possibility of establishing new perspectives of life, therefore rescuing their citizenship. The experience of a multidisciplinary approach to such a peculiar population improves the capacity of comprehensiveness of family medicine residents, thus training them to deliver better care.