Multiprofessional residency in family health in Pernambuco: from theoretical commitment to professional practice in the territory

Abstract

Objective: To discuss the experience of residents in Family Health in the city of Recife-PE, describing their work processes in the context of primary care. Experience report: The organization of the ministries of health and education involved in the construction of health residences in Brazil is discussed, to the framework of the formation of the specific program of the authors that is operationalized through groups called base nucleus (NB), from a freirian perspective. Furthermore, it was described how theoretical training takes place through themes such as: State, Society and Health Policies; Descriptive epidemiology; Popular Education; Family, Gender and Race; Life cycles; Health Planning and Scientific Methodology, in order to encompass the context of the research in the territory and at the end of the course. It also explained the actions employed in the territory, their importance and instrumentalization, namely: reception, individual and shared care, home visits, collective actions, matrix support, child care and prenatal care), in addition to activities that take place in other spaces institutional. Final Considerations: To evaluate the experience, finally, the potentialities and challenges were brought together, based on experiences in the territory, such as multiprofessionality and the low investment in permanent education, consecutively.