This thematic issue addresses a series of thematic manuscripts
that were presented at the First Brazilian Congress of Pró-Saúde and PET-Saúde,
which was held in the city of Santa Cruz, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil,
in 2014, from 25 to 27 September, coordinated by Professor PhD Fabia Barbosa de Andrade, who
coordinated the agreement between Ministry of Health and Federal University of
Rio Grande do Norte, through access to the homepage: www.propet.ufrn.br.
The
Secretariat of Labor Management and Health Education (SGTES, as per its acronym
in Portuguese), established in 2003, has been promoting the Continuing
Education Policy as a guiding idea for transforming professional practices and
health care organization strategies over the past twelve years. Recent inducing
policies proposed by the ministries of Health and of Education unleash and maximize
the transformation of the profiles of the health professional and of the health
work. The challenge is to achieve a training that enables a reflexive and
contextualized practice, an appropriate pedagogical praxis to overcome the
purely technical and traditional training, thus envisioning the training of
ethical, critical, reflective, collaborative, historical, transforming and
humanized individuals, who also have social responsibility.
Among a series of activities conducted, one can
highlight the Programa Nacional de Reorientação Profissional em
Saúde (Pró-Saúde) and the Programa
de Educação pelo Trabalho em Saúde (PET-Saúde), in their various editions, which represent the joint supports of the ministries of Health and of
Education, with the purpose of producing change in the training
of all the professions of the health sector. In 2014, the current Mais Médicos Program unleashed the
review of the Brazilian Curricular Guidelines (DCN, as per its acronym in
Portuguese) for medical degree, asserting the centrality of training in Primary
Care, the perspective of training in the health care network in the SUS and in
the teaching-service-community relationship, in addition to the training of
teachers and preceptors.
We had the
rich opportunity to travel
across Brazil by attending scientific events, debates, shows, workshops,
meetings and circles that brought to the fore experienced processes and results
of the projects developed in the Pró-Saúde and in the PET-Saúde of several
education institutions in partnership with local municipal governments, and we
surely can argue that they are successful programs with qualified products for
the development of extension, research and education in health, connected in a
promising way. The fact of having attended the First Brazilian Congress of PRÓ-SAÚDE and PET-SAÚDE of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, held
at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi, in the city of Santa Cruz/RN, gave
the working group of SGTES a great satisfaction due to having allowed its
members to know the diversity and singularity of the interventions conducted
and ensured the presence of students and community as major partners and
protagonists of the work conducted.
The HEALTH
Journal, in its thematic issue (December/2015), features articles presented at
the First Brazilian Congress of PRÓ-SAÚDE and PET-SAÚDE of the Federal
University of Rio Grande do Norte, held at the Faculty of Health Sciences of
Trairi, in the city of Santa Cruz/RN. The articles highlight the development of
teaching practices in primary health care and the challenge of greater
integration of the undergraduate teaching of health professions with the health
services of SUS and the health needs of the population. The texts were written
by teachers, preceptors and students of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and give
rise to the knowledge and debate about a production that organizes the
university training in the undergraduate level (with the practice of the work
process in primary care) and in the care networks, committed to the development
of SUS. The aforementioned journal makes up a group of scientific productions that
represent the construction of the teaching-service-community partnership. We
wish you a good reading!
Brasília/DF, October 1st,
2015.
Dr. Eliana Goldfarb Cyrino
Coordinator of Programs at the Secretariat of
Labor Management and Health Education (SGTES)
Dr. Heider Aurelio Pinto
Secretary of Labor
Management and Health Education (SGTES)
Dr. Alexandre Medeiros De Figueiredo
Director of the Department
of Management of Health Education (Deges)/ Secretariat of Labor Management and
Health Education (SGTES)
Dr. Maria Silvia Bruni
Fruet De Freitas
Coordinator of the Pró-Saúde and PET-Saúde Programs at the Secretariat of Labor Management and Health
Education (SGTES)