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Abstract

The first issue in the fifth year of Trabalho, educação e saúde inaugurates a change in the journal's periodicity, from biannual to triannual publication. We believe that this will contribute to both produce and disseminate knowledge in health care education and practice, since it expedites publication, promoting the visibility of a larger volume of scientific production in the field.This issue features four papers on the formation of health care professionals, three in the Articles section and one in the Report section. The article "The discourse of bioethics in the formation of the health care professional subject" analyses the insertion of ethical and bioethical questionings in different professional educational courses. Based on documental research, conducted in the nursing and medicine courses of four federal universities of southern Brazil, the investigation concludes that such issues constitute both present and productive knowledge, yet they are currently reduced to a set of decontextualised formulations. The article "Popular education and the formation of middle-level health care professionals" by José Ivo Pedrosa investigates the political and ethical principles of popular education, considering it as a means for institutionalising new possibilities of autonomy and of transcending the view of the other (patient) as technical object. The third article, by Georgia Sobreira dos Santos Cêa, Luiz Fernando Reis and Solange Conterno, "Profae and the neoliberal logic: close relations" analyses the main educational policy for middle-level professionals developed by the Ministry of Health − the Professionalisation Project for Nurse Practioners, examining its political and economic instrumentality and the actual possibility of the project reverting the formative deficiencies in the field. In the section Report Lilian Koifman and Regina Henriques describe the implementation of the project EnsinaSUS, which brings together teaching, development, research and documentation activities in order to build up integrality in health care. EnsinaSUS is developed by the