Mestrado profissional em saúde: interações estabelecidas entre centro de pesquisa e unidades de trabalho

Abstract

The postgraduate system brought contributions to universities, mainly for the improvement in the quality of education and knowledge production. Established in the decade of 1960s, with the purpose of qualifying professionals, mostly professors of the university itself, it aimed at expanding their training in research and, as a result, encouraging knowledge production. In this sense, teaching and research have been strengthened. By the end of the decade of 1990, CAPES recognized the Professional Masterstricto sensuas a postgraduate modality. Focusing on the professionals in business, it proposes an approach to research, with the commitment of reaching and modifying work environment. In parallel, in 1990, the Blood Center of the Clinical Hospital of the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo was founded. With the initial proposal of providing assistance and care to the population, this health center has lived with the research carried out in the academy, what enabled to reconcile knowledge production with the practice developed in its daily routine. In 2012, it launched the professional master in Hemotherapy and Biotechnology, with the aim of training and qualifying professionals in this field. In this work, the objective was to study this program, proposing to investigate the mechanisms of interaction established between the research center and partner work units, from the perspective of egress students (1 st and 2 nd classes). Because it has an exploratory and initial character, we planned to work with indicators exclusive to the professional modality, allowing to strengthen the follow-up and evaluation of the program offered, mainly those indicators related to the applicability of projects and to the impact of the course done on the professional act of the egress student. Therefore, the present work is an exploratory-descriptive study using quantitative and qualitative approaches, with six major investigation topics: the program offered; the research project developed; intellectual production; the unfolding of the experience of groups of professionals from different states of Brazil; the contribution of the supervisor for the development of research projects; and the contribution resulting from the approach of students to research. With the features of specific training and possibility of gathering professionals of the area of Hemotherapy from the nine regions of Brazil, the program has enabled to accomplish the objectives expected in the professional modality (stricto sensu) and established in the project creation in 2011. Part of these results is owed primarily to three mechanisms of interaction identified: the research project, experience of living as a group, and supervisor, each one with specific contributions to the process of students' training and learning, enabling to achieve changes in work units and in professional conduct and competences. This first characterization of the proposal allows to create a comparison point for the recently implemented program, which will go through it...