“Extensão Médica Acadêmica”: a retrospective analysis of six years project and its impacts on health care humanization, clinical training, and multidisciplinar education in the students of Faculty of Medicine of University of São Paulo

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The need of a community based education is an evident and mandatory for professional development. The Extensão Médica Acadêmica emerges with this scope, seeking for development of humanized health professionals since the first years of graduation. Structured as a volunteer project which embraces several health course (such as physiotherapy, phonoaudiology, nutrition and medicine) it seeks to foster the students contact with professional practice keeping them stimulated to study, improving their technical skills and providing a quality multidisciplinar health care. OBJECTIVES: Analyse the perception of medicine members regarding learning and humanization. Quantify the number of medical attendances and members in the last six years. Analyse the organizational structure and verify if it attends to the project objectives. METHODS: It has been collected attendance data over the period of 2009 to 2014, quantifying the number of attendance, number of volunteers by course and number of medical students by year of graduation. Other data has been collected by the Satisfaction Program with a questionnaire answered by 68 students of medicine containing 5 questions formulated in Likert’s Scale of 5 points. We used the Middle Ranking (MR) of the answers to analyse the data collected. RESULTS: There was a gradual increase in the number of members, with preponderance of medical students in the first year of graduation. In the first half of 2015 there was 252 students and 40 professionals. From the questionnaire, was obtained that the MR of learning perception was 4,162 and humanization perception was 3,964, being 67,6% of the respondents first year medical student. In this period, were performed 1656 medical attendance and 597 laboratorial exams were collected. CONCLUSION: The EMA reaches its objectives, with a great humanization (MR 3,964) and learning perception (MR 4,162). Furthermore, it was observed a gradual increase in the number of volunteers, and a huge health improvement in the communities served.