Teenage pregnancy as a focus of educational intervention by medical students in primary health care: an experience report

Abstract

Objective: To describe the experience of medical students in the Pratinha II Family Health Strategy unit in Belém (Pará, Brazil), highlighting the contributions of teaching-service integration to medical education and primary health care. Experience report: The activities took place from August 2023 to November 2025 and involved five students from the Centro Universitário do Amazonas (UNIFAMAZ) in a supervised weekly university extension project. Students participated in daily unit routines, individual and group consultations, home visits, territorial mapping, and multidisciplinary meetings. After identifying teenage pregnancy as a priority health issue, an extension project was developed, providing 294 consultations to adolescents (55 pregnant), including qualified listening, clinical evaluation, guidance on sexual and reproductive health, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and family planning. An educational intervention was also carried out in a public school with 53 ninth-grade students, using interactive methodologies on sexual and reproductive education. The process was documented on the DreamShaper platform and collectively evaluated with the health team. Final considerations: The experience promoted critical, humanized, and territory-sensitive training, strengthening clinical, communication, and educational competencies. It demonstrated the positive impact of university extension on Primary Health Care, contributing to community support and health education for the adolescents involved.