PET-Saúde/Interprofessionality and the development of curricular changes and collaborative practices

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the changes in training induced by the Education through Work for Health  Program (PET-Saúde), Interprofessionality edition, and to identify whether the assumptions of  Interprofessional Education (IPE) and collaborative  practices are being applied in the development of  projects. This is a qualitative, descriptive, and  exploratory case study, developed in the state of Rio  de Janeiro. Open interviews were carried out with 32  actors working in the program, whose contents were analyzed in the light of the theoretical- methodological framework of IPE. Three categories  were produced: PET-Saúde/Interprofessionality as a  constructive dynamics of collaborative practices;  Interprofessionality as a foundation for structuring  curricula and pedagogical practices; The evaluation  mechanisms of PET-Saúde/Interprofessionality. The  Interprofessionality edition triggered assertive  experiences from the application of the assumptions  of IPE and collaborative practices, such as induction of  curricular reforms and the creation of  interprofessional disciplines; however, it still does not  represent a policy incorporated by teaching  institutions. Special attention must be given to the  evaluation processes, which are very incipient, and to  the sustainability of the advances achieved, which  require political and institutional support. PET-Saúde  has progressively contributed to changes in teaching  and to the dissemination of concepts and  assumptions that guide IPE.