Pesquisadores brasileiros na pós-graduação de Antropologia Médica na Espanha: relato de experiência

Abstract

The purpose of this manuscript was to report and discuss the experience of Brazilian health researchers, going through a program in the area of anthropology. This experience report aims to acknowledge and critical discuss the experiences of the researchers in the anthropology field of continued and permanent education, in the background of the PhD course in Anthropology and Communication of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. The immersion studies on medical anthropology and global health done by the researchers widened their understanding of the health-disease-care process, enabling the analysis of the phenomenon from another perspective, where the society and cultural values are strongly present.

Elective Educational Unit: International Exchange Experience in Undergraduate Medical Training

“…There are some experiences reported in the literature about international exchange, inserted in undergraduate activities 6 and, more frequently graduate studies 7,8 , however they do not constitute compulsory curricular activity in the undergraduate program.…”

“…In graduate programs, meanwhile, international exchanges are more frequent.Published articles report the importance of internationalization to give rise to the construction of joint projects and the possibility of articulation between Brazilian and foreign lines of research 7 . Another article speaks of the importance of spreading knowledge built through study-visits.…”