BREAKING TABOOS IN BASIC HEALTH UNIT

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: In our health care system, one of the biggest current problems is to have professionals able to work there. Major reforms in curricula emphasize the need for linkages and performance in the Basic Health Unit, location often rejected by students and whose contact occurs more intensely in compulsory internship. This paper reports the contact’s experience between a healthcare team and students in medicine degree in their supervised training of public health, emphasizing the team’s importance and opening for the trainee. METHODOLOGY: Since 2009, UBS Maria Neide, located in Mossoró-RN, receives medical students in their compulsory training of public health and during this period they must integrate the daily living activities of the team, as well as perform an intervention project in the area and update mapping of micro areas. The team meets weekly, discussing the arrival of its "new members", as well as the activities undertaken by them. It is also decided which Health Agent will mapping the area with them and, in the course of Stage, they participate actively in the intervention performed and the area's needs. RESULTS: The integration of supervised students, staff and community have been essential for their medical degree with a different perspective and respecting different kinds of knowledge in a team and also contributing with the care qualification, expanding offerings with the projects made and updating mapping area. They can realize the Basic Health Unit’s resoluteness, demystifying misconceptions.