A dialectical methodology applied to medical education in a Primary Care syllabus
DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.20133717077
Keywords:
Education, Medical. Primary Health Care. Family Practice. Family Health. Family Health Program.Abstract
The essay aims at making public the pedagogical knowledge on the education of undergraduate medical students in the
City of São Paulo, Brazil, in Primary Care. Proposals and objectives of the academic syllabus “Integration between University,
Practical Work and Community” (Integração Academia, Serviço e Comunidade) are dialectically described in order
to allow medical undergraduate students to fully experience both the practical and the theoretical contents which are the
guiding principles of the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, acronym SUS), the Family Health
Strategy and the Family and Healthcare Medicine. Syncresis (preparation to gather knowledge), analysis (knowledge construction)
and synthesis (knowledge elaboration) come together to contribute for streamlining the teaching practice and to
provide the medical undergraduate students an expanded and critical view on the health-disease process in view of the
current structure of Primary Care in Brazil.
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