INTERNAL COLLEGIATE OF MANAGEMENT – A SHARED MANAGEMENT ATTEMPT

In Clinica da Família Anthidio Dias da Silveira (a PHC facility that hosts more than eighty permanent professional and also family medicine and multidisciplinary residents and students) the urge to implement a shared management system has emerged. The main purpose is to overcome the challenge to turn this facility into a comfortable and welcoming place for both workers and users. The action plan was to vote representatives from each and every professional category to gather monthly with the duty to discuss and revolve every subject that concerns the collective. In an attempt to give representatives the chance to discuss with his pears, the agenda of every meeting, should be voted in the previous meeting. The group of representatives is called the Internal Collegiate of Management (ICM), and has been gathering monthly since May/2015. Since then, it has suffered a couple of changes, in order to better equate representations. The group has voted the necessity of more Community health agents representatives, since this category responds for half of the unit employees. The ICM has rapidly understood it´s power and importance. In a constant maturing process, every subject is respectfully discussed. In parallel, each representative is working with its own category suitable paths to guarantee organized spaces to discuss topics and perspectives for the ICM meetings. Active participation in every important management decision has develop in the majority of workers a better sense of belonging. In addition, it´s helping to overcome cultural and income dissemblance.