“Programa Saúde e Cidadania”: the contribution of university extension in Amazonia for medical education

Abstract

With emphasis to the importance in medical education, it reports the experience lived by the academics and teachers of medicine in partnership with the pupils of Health Multiprofissional Residence in an extension program in the interior of the Amazon. The result of the immersion of these authors in community reality and of their individual and collective experiences within the “Programa Saúde e Cidadania” in municipalities of Amazonas, between February 2012 and July 2015, is described in a qualitative approach of the type experience report. Since 2012, more than 50 academics were able to be present in field trips, planned and executed by the students themselves under the guidance of the team of coordinators and teachers of the extension program in partnership of Helth Multiprofissional Residence from Ufam. The academics of medical school has the opportunity of immersing in the reality of these communities and thus glimpse the social context, the territorial peculiarities and Health Social Determinants which influence the health-disease process. The experiences in this extension program cooperated to integrate criticality, humanization and team work to technical training of curriculum providing the possibility of forming doctors more sensitive to the proposals of the Public Health Sistem.