Author(s)

Sebastião Célio Horta Coelho Filho¹, Thiago Sande Miguel¹, Nayrton Kalys Cruz dos Anjos¹, Mateus de Oliveira Reis¹, Bruna Sande Miguel², Vinicius Sande Miguel², Aline Gabriela Santos Costa¹, Lilian Costa Brito¹, Bruno Fonseca dos Santos¹, Verônica Clemente Villar Martini¹, Daniel Almeida da Costa¹

¹The Medical School at the Center of Higher Education of Valença, Valença, Brazil.
²Unigranrio Medical School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Introduction: The involvement of undergraduate student at the beginning of their training in activities based on Primary Health Care (PHC), provides preventive and health promoting actions, and ensures the evaluation of the vulnerability of communities and people. Objectives: To analyze the opinion of students and teachers of two medicine higher education institutions on the relevance of Primary Health Care in this course. METHODS: Students and teachers should be effectively enrolled in order for the study to be conducted, being chosen in a random manner and without interferences on the part of the researchers so that the work was as reliable as possible. A cross-sectional study was conducted with interviews structured in questionnaires about what they thought about PHC. To some students and teachers of the medical course of Valen?a and Grande Rio University (UNIGRANRIO). Before receiving the questionnaire, all interviewed signed a Free and Informed Consent Term, which included the objectives and methodology of the work. Results: 310 students and 51 teachers participated in the study, where 91.43% of the students and 100% of the teachers affirmed that primary care plays a fundamental role in medical education. 94.86% of students and 97.91% of teachers, claimed that the discipline allows a greater contact between undergraduates and community. When questioned about the encouragement that teachers give to students to pursue a career in PHC, 57.87% of the students and 70.83% of the professors said they lacked in such a stimulus. Conclusion: PHC is still very neglected by governmental policies, educational institutions and by the own teachers, that often, turn they attention only to tertiary medicine and, as a consequence, a discouragement of this area occur. Therefore, a higher PHC value is necessary, allowing a more humane look at the patient, valuing their feelings, anguishes and their pathological framework.

Primary Health Care, Graduation, Medicine

Filho, S. , Miguel, T. , dos Anjos, N. , de Oliveira Reis, M. , Miguel, B. , Miguel, V. , Costa, A. , Brito, L. , dos Santos, B. , Martini, V. and da Costa, D. (2017) Importance of Primary Health Care in Medicine: Simultaneous Analysis of Two Colleges, under the Vision of Teachers and Students. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 5, 6-12. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2017.511002.