Reflections on the perceptions of resident professionals about a Multiprofessional Residency Program in Family Health

Abstract

As the emergence and development of the Unified Health System (SUS), through Health Reform, public policies and the way health care is established are discussed. Evidencing Primary Care here as a gateway to the SUS and ordering care. Thus, it also seeks to reflect on the performance of professionals and their qualification to develop activities according to SUS principles. With that, Multiprofessional Residencies in Health appear as a form of permanent education that aims to qualify professional training. Based on this, the study aimed to understand the perceptions and expectations of professionals resident in a Family Health Residency Program in Vale do Taquari. It was a qualitative study in which an interview was conducted through an online form with 12 professionals in the areas of Nursing, Physiotherapy, Nutrition and Psychology, who completed or are in the process of training in the family health residency. The method of analysis was based on the methodology of discursive practices by Mary Jane Paris Spink, which addresses the senses and meanings expressed in everyday health services. With that, it was realized that the residency is composed of some interlocutors, with greater evidence being tutor, preceptor and resident, with each one being assigned different roles and meanings that are constructed during the process. Still, residency is a powerful and positive process in the context of training professionals for the SUS, being evidenced in the residents' statements, but it presents several challenges in its functioning and organization.

Keywords: Multiprofessional health residency. Primary attention. Health education.