The aim of this paper was to analyze the meaning of the experiences of students in undergraduate healthcare courses who participated in new education spaces resulting from strategies for reorientation of health education, from the perspective of the Brazilian Health System. (SUS) In producing data for qualitative exploratory research, we used semi-structured interviews with 12 students from different courses. For data analysis, thematic content analysis was used. For the students, participating in PET-Health and in SUS internship experiences is important because they learn meaningful content that is not addressed at university and develop joint activities with students from different courses. The learning that results from this linkage motivates them to develop professional work in the public system, since it allows them to experience the daily work; generates feelings of anxiousness, restlessness and struggle; and represents an incentive for seeking knowledge.
Objective: To analyze the contributions of the Education through Work for Health Program to the preceptors of Primary Healthcare working in family health units in Feira de Santana, Bahia. Method: A qualitative study conducted with preceptors in the months of March and April 2016, adopting preceptors who had worked in family health units linked to the Program for a minimum period of two years as inclusion criterion. Preceptors on vacation, maternity leave or on leave for different reasons were excluded. The collected data were interpreted based on the content analysis technique. Results: A total of 16 preceptors were interviewed. The Program’s contributions to the preceptors were as follows: expanding the perspective on health work, gaining experience in the teaching-learning process and the motivation to continue and search for new studies. Conclusion: The Program enabled preceptors to take a broader look at health work in the context of Primary Healthcare, to gain experience in training processes and motivation to develop new studies, in addition to contributing in a responsible way to the consolidation of the Unified Health System.
Objective: To describe the educational activities of the Program for Education through Work for Health (PET-Health) developed in family health units of a municipality in the Northeast of Brazil. Method: Qualitative study with 16 preceptors interviewed in the months of March and April 2016. Inclusion criterion was adopted: preceptors who worked in family health units linked to the program, for at least two years. Were excluded workers on vacations, maternity leave or on leave for various reasons. The data were interpreted according with Bardin's content analysis method. Results: It was evidenced that the PET-Health involves users in health education actions in the formation of educational groups, recreational activities and income generation workshops, and permanent education activities for health service workers through training, collective actions and induction of changes in daily work. Conclusion and implications for practice: Educational activities of the PET-Health, according to the reality and needs of health services, is a differential that qualifies the training process of students and workers, while promoting education for the health of users through integrated and intersectoral actions.
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