Recontextualização do currículo integrado nos cursos de medicina da UFSC e UNOCHAPECÓ

Abstract

This research discusses the proposed integration of the curriculum of two medical schools of Santa Catarina, The Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the Community University for the Region of Chapecó -(UNOCHAPECÓ). The aim of the research is to understand the process of development and re-contextualization of an integrated curriculum from the analysis of pedagogical projects and through semi-structured interviews with teachers and coordinators of the respective medical courses. We sought to consider the problem of; How to integrate the curriculum and re-contextualize the two courses of medicine? What are the main characteristics of the integrated curricula? What are the ways through which we express the curricular change? Using these questions to direct the research it was possible in this way to identify: (a) in the area of official re-contextualization, the primary influences of policies and programs to encourage curricular change. In this context we understand that the policies mobilize individuals and social groups, in the communication and curriculum practices, providing that there is a continuous processes of interpretation and reinterpretation. (b) the attributes of integrated curricula were placed within the area of pedagogical re-contextualization. In this area we have identified that the curricula of the two medical schools were organized in a modular and spiral approach. The projects also revealed the dynamics and complexity of its operation. In the analysis of the interviews it was possible to realize the principle social players involved in the process of change, the difficulties, the advances and challenges both in the preparation and the implementation of integrated curricular proposals. Thus, this study shows the ambivalence of the motivations and influences of the policies in the context of the changes and development of the proposed curriculum. However, we believe that such influences and motivations are re-contextualized and re-interpreted in different ways due to the personal and professional history of each participant and the complex connections with the collectivity, the culture and power relationships. Therefore, we not only sought to identify resistance or acceptance of a curriculum change, but to understand that the proposed curriculum, understood as a social and historical tool, aims to look beyond the integration of knowledge and also as an integrated vision of humanity. In this sense a re-contextualization of medical training is being formed.