CONTRIBUTIONS AND CHALLENGES OF HEALTH AND SOCIETY TUTORING PROGRAM IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Background and objectives: Included in the first year with basic subjects, health and society monitoring is undervalued in the classroom, on the grounds of being dispensable for reduced theoretical load. This distorted view takes preference disciplines considered more difficult, making them the target for greats efforts. To discuss with the scientific community issues related to development activities in the discipline of health and society. Methods: Qualitative work, experience report. Results and conclusion: The tutoring program began in 2013, with 3 seats, 9 inscriptions and 2 students were selected. The opening took place with debates about construction of the concept of health and disease, based on the academic perception, the students were challenged to create dynamic presentations on the health-disease process, using playful ways.The tutoring program conducted active methodologies involving bioethics, history and narratives in medicine, allowing the student in the first semester a humanized and integrated contact, valuing life stories on the influence of health status. It ended with the creation of health promotion projects, feasible and relevant for the target population. The activity originated extension projects at the university. Essential in rescuing the importance of discipline, tutoring program contributes to the maturation of committed professional with the multidisciplinary team. The introduction of playful and field activities with more contact with community and patients, allow advances in the challenge to match the importance and vision of the contribution of this discipline to the future doctor.