CONTINUING EDUCATION: A POTENTIAL SPACE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF COLLECTIVE PROJECTS, ARTICULATING AND QUALIFYING MANAGEMENT AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Continuing Education (CE), as Ceccim (2005), is the educational setting to the educational process that puts the health work everyday under review, which permeates the concrete relationships that operate realities and makes possible the construction of collective spaces for reflection and evaluation of sense of the acts produced in daily life. Thus, how the educational process is conducted, is critical to the qualification of health practices. The objective of this study is to report an experience in CE, in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in Petrópolis / RJ/Brazil, from the relationship between the Program of Hypertension and Diabetes (Hiperdia) Coordinating and Supervision of the FHS. The experience was about the Course Educating Educators in Diabetes, in August 2015, by a multidisciplinary team from the Diabetes Association and Brazilian Society of Diabetes, with an active participation of municipal management. The course was developed through a participatory methodology, with several workshops and group discussions from the professional’s experiences. As result, there were built collective projects from the local needs of the work of each participating health unit. The projects and their results has been monitored and discussed by the teams in regional supervision meetings. This demonstrates that the collective participation of management and health professionals in the continuity of projects that qualify the health practice can be enhanced by strategies of Continuing Education.