THE PROBLEM- BASED LEARNING IN THE PRACTICES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE COMMUNITY IN MEDICINE GRADUATION

The discipline Primary Health Care in the Community uses the Problem Based Learning - PBL in teaching-service-community interconnection early inserting the students on practical experiences in the Family Health Strategy of João Pessoa, Paraiba. The identification of priority needs and problems of the population subsidizes the management and planning of actions, making use of tools such as the Health Situation Room, allowing the interdisciplinary team to analyze problems in work processes for decision making. This work aims at describing the experience of the use of active methodology in the practical activities of the second period graduation in Medicine, using the Situation Room device. The route of the PBL, composed by the points: questioning; learning group; collaborative networks; theoretical consolidation; practice activity and recovery was performed on four face meetings, starting with the identification of the problem when it was found the need for an educational approach about the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS among young people in a public high school and elementary school in the territory analyzed. The second point was the group construction of the Situation Room, followed by action planning in collaboration network and the theme explanation to guide students on the lectures subsequently conducted at the school, using banners with illustrations on the topic and guidance on the use of condoms. The experience allowed us to adopt the methodology applied as a relevant alternative for medical training, also being able to develop, in practical experience, cognitive and socio – emotional competences on the student.