Abstract
Objective: To understand the perception of Physiotherapy students in a course at a public university in the interior of the state of Pará about health education in prenatal care. Methods: This is a qualitative, descriptive field research, which data collection was done through the focal group technique, where the sample was divided into two groups with 6 and 9 participants. Results: After analyzing the data in the Iramuteq software, three text groups were created with the themes: Experience of Health Education in prenatal care, Breaking of paradigm and its importance, and Resources used to educate in Health. From which it was possible to analyze the students' perception about the importance of working with health education, academic training and breaking the paradigm to work in health education and resources used to educate in health. Conclusion: It was found that the students who participated in the research did not undergo a gradual learning process to carry out health education practices. However, at the end of the experiments, they felt safe and carried out the activities using materials that they themselves built and that carried out the actions with ease.