FAMILY MEDICINE: MEDICAL TRAINING IN BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL

Introduction and Objective: Family medicine is the model of care of the Unified Health System (SUS), whose principles are: universality, integrity and equity. More than curing disease, family medicine aims to the promotion, protection and prevention of community health, in an ethical and humane way, creating ties with families. This study aimed to understand the change from the Biomedical model vision to the Biopsychosocial, in which the community and the citizens are met in their entirety, with their differences and peculiarities respected. Method: observations were made from home visits conducted by the multidisciplinary family health team strategy (ESF - "Estratégia Saúde da Família"), the practical activities of the Community discipline, Course of Medicine, PUC Goiás and analyzed the field. Results and Conclusions: It was observed that home visits from health professionals increased interaction with the environment family and community; They enabled the mapping of determinants and health situations; and strengthened influence to change habits, lifestyles harmful to health and treatment. The community acquired more credibility and trust with the team. The Family Medicine provided a broader view of the actual conditions of family life, allowing to identify health risk factors, to guide the family to take measures such as changes in lifestyle that will contribute to a lower morbidity rate in the region improving the community‘s quality of life. Thus, the subjective nature of medical care runs through the humanization of health as a priority in the biopsychosocial model.