PERCEPTION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS TO DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ABOUT ALCOHOL AND DRUGS IN THE WORKSHOP FORMAT.

Introduction: The School Health Program (SHP) aims at integration and ongoing articulation of education and health, providing improvement of the population quality of life. In this context teachers and medical students of IMEPAC-Araguari Brazil developed an extension project grounded on SHP guidelines, in partnership with the Family Health Strategy team, where are developed educational activities about alcohol and drugs in a public school in the area covered by FHS. Objective: Analyze the perception of medical students to develop educational activities about alcohol and drugs in the workshop format. Methodology: Descriptive study which analyzed the perceptions of medical students about the extension project that occurred in the period from August to December 2015, being held educational activities in the form of sequenced workshops with groups of up to 20 elementary school students, selected randomly. Results and conclusions: Three meetings were held in the workshop format; students, divided into three subgroups, should identify drugs through a game with figures; discuss the reduction of dynamics damages of "fact or rumor" and prepare a folder with drawings, phrases and figures from the reflection of the previous workshops, featuring the formation of multipliers. In the perception of the students this workshop format allows for open dialogue with teenagers and the expression of their views on psychoactive substances. It is believed that such activities are reflection generators favoring a positive impact on teenage life in the use / abuse of alcohol and other drugs.