Instituting and instituted in medical education: movements triggered by the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program

Abstract

The present study focused on mapping the forces involved in implementing the medical programs created from the Mais Médicos Program (MMP) and their effects on training practices and subjects who experience them. The field of research was two new medical programs in the South and Northeast regions of the country. We found that two sets of forces operate in the programs through a qualitative research approach based on the cartographic method, expressions of the instituted and instituting in medical education. The influences of the biomedical model, labor market, and the movements of political polarization underway in the national scenario were highlighted in the field of the instituted. The student movements for change in education, those to reaffirm the Unified Health System and collective health, and those that support training focused on a generalist profile stood out among the instituting forces. In summary, the program’s proposal for medical education operated as an interference device in these programs when associated with a group context of collective construction, shared management of the programs, and pedagogical practices anchored in the perspective of the socio-historical production of the health-disease-care process and the medical institution.