PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS AND COLLABORATIVE NETWORK HEALTH EDUCATORS OF BRAZIL : THE SUSTAINABILITY OF PUBLIC POLICIES

Introduction and Objective: Since 2012, the Brazilian Association of Medical Education (ABEM) develops, with funding from the Ministry of Health, in cooperation with PAHO, the Preceptorship ABEM Project. This Project ims to conduct courses to Tutors and Preceptors in order to broaden and consolidate the Pedagogical Competence Development actions considering the needs identified by the Ministries of Education and Health, strengthening existing policies and actions of ABEM. Method: The semipresential courses have a workload of 180h, 2 steps classroom modules and 2 periods of distance learning. Among the activities carried out at the end of the course, each participant plans an Intervention Project aiming to qualify the graduate course or Residency Program to which is linked. Results and Conclusions: We conducted 31 courses for Preceptors and 2 for Tutors. Structuring a collaborative network of approximately 900 educators linked to Higher Education Public Institutions (HEI) Graduation, Medical and Multidisciplinary Residency Programs and More Doctors Program, at 19 cities in Brazil. Among all participants, 19% are General Practitioners or Public Health and 40% are from other basic areas: gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics, internal medicine and surgery. The Preceptorship ABEM design allows develop teaching skills of the professionals involved, consolidating strategies of decentralization, strengthening and giving opportunities for regional sustainability. It also brings together educators a Community of pedagogical practices, increasing the interest and access to tele-education platforms, exercising the principles of lifelong learning, with a focus on autonomy and reflective practice, from the framework of questioning and meaningful learning, transforming the reality.