PRECOCIOUS INSERTION IN THE COMMUNITY: A TOOL FOR TEACHING OF SOCIALIZED MEDICAL PRACTICES

Introduction/Objectives: The Practices of Integration Education/Service and Community is a curriculum component of medical school at the State University of Santa Cruz, Bahia, Brazil, in which ten students and instructor deal with health promotion and disease prevention according to the community health demands. This strategy aims to provide students with an innovative teaching resource since they have to deal with an interdisciplinary team which focusing primary health. This is an effort to the formation of a family doctor able to contribute to transformation/construction of health care model focused on local realities of the population. Methodology: Ten students were inserted into Family Health Unit in the city of Ilhéus, and employing the methodology of questioning, the main complaint in health was elected by the local population. Later, using observation, theorizing and proposition, students developed intervention project to solve the chosen problem. Results/Conclusions: This methodology contributed to the criticism of the medical students in relation to construction and development of local planning in health, as well as the adoption of more humanized practice respecting the individual aspects and to contribute to address the health problems respecting their values and cultures such as hypertension, diabetes, dengue fever, empowerment and women’s health. Therefore, the methodology of curricular component involving the inclusion of students in the daily health activities helped to endow them with a socialized medical practice, in addition to better understanding of the individual as an active thereby improving not only information on health but also acquiring healthier habits.