Interprofessional education and collaborative practice in physical education training: reflections of an experience from the perspective of tutoring

Abstract

This article aims to describe the characteristics of the curricular component “interprofessional health module”, offered to undergraduate health students at the University of Pernambuco (UPE) and to present a report of experiences in tutoring activities, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the Physical Education core scenario. This strategy of interprofessional education and collaborative practice, pioneered in the state, works in two pedagogical moments (concentration and dispersion), providing the student with an understanding of the collaborative work process from the perspective of comprehensiveness and care in network health care. Students from the first period of courses in the health area recognize during the concentration the possibilities of their core activities in articulation with others and have contact with concepts of collective health. During the dispersion, students build and perform interprofessional actions, in an educational institution linked to the family health strategy, and body practices are commonplace strategies. It is noticed that there is a change in attitude about the possibility of acting in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS); however, the contents of collective health, including interprofessionality and collaborative practices, must permeate the entire training path in Physical Education, providing the qualification for comprehensiveness. of Attention in SUS.