FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE - MFC: PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AS PRECEPTOR TO INTERNSHIP IN MFC IN THE AMAZON

Introduction and Objective: I completed residency in Family and Community Medicine, in February 2015. I started in Primary care in the city of Porto Velho / RO, part of the Legal Amazon, as a doctor of family and Community while in mentoring activities with internship students in the same year. Primary care is the patient‘s gateway to the health system, we aimed to report the experience as preceptor of MFC at the Family Health Unit-FHU Little Pedacinho de Chão neighborhood, Porto Velho/RO. Method: qualitative approach focused on action research process that strives for the social context and in practice researchers and respondents are involved to solve a certain problem. In this research materialized in the various stories and experiences of life to the proposition of the best chances of overcoming the disease, as well as the best way to conduct treatment, monitoring and evaluation of people‘s situation. Results and conclusions:a)preceptor and 4 internal, 3 days per week, 3 months, 180 people assisted; b)understanding of the students / internal of the MFC function and the importance of that attention in Primary care; c)students / internal declared "work with the person striving for holistic view can create opportunities for people to have better life quality and experience greater professional satisfaction." Thus we conclude that experience as MFC in Amazonia in mentoring / internship allowed through the theoretical and practical knowledge experience the processes which involve health / disease of people and provided an opportunity of better quality of life.