BREAKING DOWN PARADIGMES: FORMATION IN MENTAL HEALTH ON COLLECTIVE HEALTH INTERNSHIP

INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES: Accordingly to National Curricular Policies, the medical formation in its internship regime must include beyond the basic areas, essential aspects of the collective health and mental health, in activities eminently practical. Aiming filling those rules and the formation of a Doctor capable of recognizing mental illness and psychic suffer as fundamental part of the practice of the Generalist Doctor, it was proposed mental health internship for the students of the Collective Health Internship (CHI) on the ambit of the Primary Health Care (PHC). METHOD: The CHI students were included on PHC on last period of the course, and along with the activities, experience of the mental health care of the Family Doctor on the unity they are inserted, by attending to chronic and acute patients, activities to promote mental health by making groups, and also participate actively on interconsultation with psychiatrists and psychologists that are responsible for the doing the matrix on those unities. And, still, participate on the activities of the Psychosocial Care Center, living fully all the activities performed on those services. RESULTS/CONCLUSION: The contact with patients carriers of mental disorders provides the breaking of the pre-perceptions of their mental health conditions and the reformulation of those concepts. This kind of experience has its importance seeing that it has allowed the deconstruction of ideas based on the common sense, and the enhancement of the capacity of treating the psychiatric patient, besides, it offers the experimentation of sensations that were neglected until that point on the Medicine Course.