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Sex education in middle schools: the medical student as an educator
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Keywords

Health education
Sex education
Adolescent

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Sex education in middle schools: the medical student as an educator. (2021). Electronic Journal Collection Health, 13(2), e5501. https://doi.org/10.25248/reas.e5501.2021

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Abstract

Objective: To describe the experience with a project that discusses sexual development with middle school students from public schools, conducted by medical students. Experience Report: In practice since 2016, the project has been organized in workshops developed with students and their parents or guardians, teacher training and provision of material so that it can be replicated by schools. In 2020, has undergone adaptations to be mediated by digital platforms. Together with the teachers, a video on the development of the human body was produced, focusing on the physical changes of puberty; a virtual presentation on behavior during development, showing how children respond to different stages of growth, and an online comic about a teenager with a suspected pregnancy who decides to go to the Primary Health Care Unit for the first time. Final Considerations: Unlike the preventive, heteronormative approach, graduated according to the age of the students and usually inserted as the theme of science classes, this project seeks to give teachers, family and the local health system the opportunity to appropriate the task of discussing education with the recognition of obstacles, prejudices and gaining autonomy. 

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