AN EXPERIENCE WITH INSERTION IN THE COMMUNITY: DEMYSTIFYING VIOLENCE AND GETTING ACQUAINTED OF DIFFERENT FAMILY DYNAMICS.

Our study aims to evaluate the experience of inserting medical students right in the beginning of the course into the territorial of families and into the community. This experience is included in the formal curriculum, through the horizontal module A (MHA), in the first period of the course. The students' perceptions are surveyed by using a journal and a circle of conversation. The contact of students with the real and the peripheral territory allowed to demystify the midiatic impression of increased violence in the region, as well as to emphasize the concept of respect and recognition of the community about the health workers, therefore, understanding the complex dynamics of the territory, and recognizing the social equipment which support this population. During the visits to families' houses, some initial difficulties emerged in the approaching and in the dialogue with them. Continuing with the visits, it was noticed that a good rapport between the students and families is necessary in order to effectivectively take care of the families. So as the observation of arrangements and different family dynamics, which were registered through a genogram and an ecomap. The follow-up of the families and acquaintance of the territorial enabled a sharp perception of the diversity of the dynamics and organization of the families and of the community. The experience of insertion of medical students in the community, since the beginning of the course, attempts to be effective in the construction of a medical education according to the principles of SUS.