NEW METHODOLOGIES: ACADEMIC REPORT ABOUT TEACHING SUS AT BASIC EDUCATION

Introduction and Objective: Health Education is a valuable tool of the medical profession, helping to transform the social comprehension of the binomial health-disease. Therefore, using active methodologies in higher education is a condition sine qua non to develop great professionals. Thus, to reinforce the importance of health education directed to basic attention; to aware students of their roles as health agents; and further discussions about the role of the doctors in SUS, are the main objectives of this project. Method: Qualitative research of phenomenological base, developed at Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, with members of the extension project “Avançar em Saúde”, using the semi structured interview with triggering questions as a resource. As a criterion for inclusion were considered the students with at least one given class and, as a criterion for exclusion, those with unfinished classes. Results and Conclusion: The results show that an experience with health education through active methodology encourages the reflection about the role of the doctors in basic attention, as well as provides representations of the binomial health disease based on the biopsychosocial approach. It’s concluded that modifying the way of teaching health is the biggest challenge for higher education teachers, once clearly there’s a need to transform the praxis in health. As for the students, remains to understand the change of the resolutive focus of medicine, giving space to preventive medicine and requiring wide discussion about new methods of teaching.