THE USE OF UNIPÊ METHODOLOGY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION AT THE CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE JOÃO PESSOA

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES – The use of UNIPÊ Methodology refers to a peculiar pedagogical model whose learning is based on real- life or simulated problems, using a recognized approach that has been adopted since the 1960s to reformulate the traditional didactic teaching method, with some variations to suit our local needs. The aim of this paper is to describe a recent experience concerning the use of UNIPÊ methodology in the second half of 2015, in the teaching of medicine by applying the so-called Dynamic of the Stations tool. METHOD - It refers to the instrumentalization of one class’s curriculum component in the Primary Health Care in the Community II, part of the the second semester of Medical School at the Centro Universitário of João Pessoa, Paraíba, by using an active methodology, held outdoors, to discuss and formulate concepts about the main Health Attention Models, distributed so that students could move in a series of five thematic stations with fixed rapporteurs in each, in charge of exposing the production of the group to the others, followed by the theoretical consolidation by the professor, which performs an assessment at the end. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS - The methodology promotes significant contribution to the professional education of future physicians, due to the great commitment of participants, deepening the information, according to a work in collaborative network, encouraging each student to manage knowledge by himself with quality, as they are able to observe the possibility of the application of what was learned in a future medical practice.