Medical apprenticeship in primary health care community services

Abstract

After retrieving the historical relationship between teaching medicine, medical assistance and research carried out beyond the university ambient , the authors present a concept of education to be used in the Public Health Services. This concept when compared to the better known and more important Projects for the Reformation of the Teaching of Medicine, provides a basis for the critical review of the aims and objectives of these projects. It also recovers the possibility of widening the vision of medical students , about the health problems that affect children and the specific work performed by these services , through the development of clinical practice at the Health Centers of the Basic Network of the County of Campinas. Clinical practice conducted at the Health Centers , together with the teaching and research developed there , is based on the fact that good health and sickness are situations felt and experienced by individuals in a society, without excluding knowledge obtained from epidemiology , social sciences and clinical physio-pathalogical-anatomy. Reflecting on this research , it is possible to see that there are other teaching possibilities that could be introduced in the Basic Network and which haven.t been taken into consideration by the Projects for the Reformation of the Teaching of Medicine.