Identificação dos atributos da atenção primária e de expectativas sobre o internato em saúde coletiva por estudantes de medicina em estágio em unidade de saúde da família de Porto Alegre

Abstract

The teaching of Primary Health Care in undergraduate medical school has been a constant challenge for professors and educational institutions. It proposes an outpatient care distant from the students' day-to-day hospital practice and tends not to be a subject of greater interest to them. With the purpose of discussing the topic, this study evaluates the identification of the attributes of primary health care, the performance of a Family Health Unit in Porto Alegre, and the expectations and perception of what was performed by medical students before and after the completion of the Internship in Collective Health. In order to do so, the identification of primary care attributes, the evaluation of the integrality attribute through the questionnaire on Primary Health Care (PCA tools), and open-ended questions about the expectation and reality found in Family Health Units were used. Answer analysis was done using Bardin’s descriptive statistics and content analysis. As a result, at the end, students had identified more attributes of Primary Health Care, brought up important aspects in the evaluation of the Family Health Strategy Units, and their written answers to the open-ended questions about the internship evidenced the expectation and perception of what was performed in care and health education.