FREIRE FILHO, José Rodrigues. Education and interprofessional practices in the 'More Doctors' (Mais Médicos) Program: implications for training and health work in the Brazilian context. 2018. 201fl. Doctorate Thesis -Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 2018.Since its inception, The Family Health Strategy (Estratégia Saúde da Família -ESF) has faced difficulties of expansion related to scarcity and unequal distribution of physicians, which consequently brings serious compromises to its degree of solvability. As a way of coping with this situation, the 'More Doctors' Program (Programa Mais Médicos -PMM) was created in 2013, which is characterized as a policy of health provision and education and in which Interprofessional Education (IPE) appears as an important approach for mobilizing changes in professional practices and the care model. This research aimed to explore the thesis that the PMM presents a potential trigger for changes in the education model of health professions in Brazil, based on an adoption of educational strategies anchored in the assumptions of IPE. Regarding this, an exploratory study was carried out through documentary analysis and field research. The documentary research had the National Curricular Guidelines (DCN) of the undergraduate medical courses of 2001 and 2014 as its object of study, and nine political pedagogical projects (PPP) of Specialization courses in Family Health offered in the domain of the PMM. Field research was carried out in the state of Minas Gerais by in-depth interviews, focus groups and application of the Jefferson Scale of Attitudes Related to Interprofessional Collaboration (JeffSATIC), with physicians who are members of the PMM emergency provision, tutors, supervisors and professionals of the Primary Care teams that PMM physicians are linked to. The results demonstrate that the IPE explicit in the new DCN is an advance for its incorporation into the Brazilian scenario. Although systematized pedagogical proposals based on the theoreticalconceptual and methodological foundations of IPE are not evident in the PPPs, they have proven to be potent in adopting this approach. Application of the JeffSATIC showed that there are no statistical differences regarding the professional attitude towards interprofessional collaboration due to the profile of the doctor/team (Brazilian, foreign exchange or Cuban), but higher scores were obtained by foreign nurses and doctors. The interviews and focus groups revealed that central elements of IPE are set out in the PMM formative cycles, such as promoting knowledge about the role of each profession, interdependence, sharing experiences in daily work, conflict resolution and centrality of care for the user. It was noted that there is recognition that the health care policy enabled the reversal of health scenarios, in which FHS teams (incomplete due to the absence of this professional) were considerably limited to promote comprehensive care to the population through professional collaboration. It is possible to ...