WHERE IT ALL STARTS: JUNIOR MEDICAL STUDENTS FOCUSING ON BASIC HEALTH ATTENTION

Introduction/ Objectives: Hippocrates, father of Medicine, exalts the relevance to consider the person in their socio-environmental context in order to allow the determination of their general health status. In this sense, we aim to use the concepts of Juan Samaja (epistemologist) to allow the construction of the critic thinking and for the development of abilities needed in the professional life, humanizing the actions to promote and to protect basic health. The medical curriculum of basic health attention (BHA), include practices in Family Health Unities (FHU) in communities as the Alto Jose Bonifacio community (212.462 inhabitants) in the city of Recife (Population 1.620.000). Methodology: Basic Health assessment was performed via observations, interviews and review of FHU files. Analysis of the collected data was based on Juan Samaja work, separating the dimensions that compose the conformation dynamics, consolidation and transformation of the social organization. Results/ Conclusion: This descriptive research indicates that the television has primordial relevance in the communal-cultural dimension as a mean of auto-conscience reproduction and codes human conduct. In the ecological-political sphere, environmental and sound pollution was noted as well as irregular water supply. Low income and informal work was predominant. In the bio-communal: large families (average 3 children) living in small spaces, houses proximity and low scolarity. In this perspective the participation of medical students to the BHA practices is of fundamental importance as it incites the students to intervene with the intention to improve the quality of life and the health of the FHU community.