Healthcare and education from the education by work for health program

Abstract

Historically, the education of health professionals has focused on the construction of fragmented content that privilege biological determinism and disease as the object of consumption. The adoption of reorienting educational policies by educational institutions has stimulated new teaching and healthcare methods. This study aimed to analyze hinge mechanisms developed among managers, tutors, mentors, and fellows, featuring the devices that contribute to the reorientation to teaching and the development of new healthcare methods. This was an evaluative research work with a qualitative approach that used focus group, direct observation, and document analysis as data collection methods, followed by technical analysis of the data. The results show similarities between the services and education population, decreased fragmentation of content, strengthening of professional health education and teamwork, changes in the micro-policies at work, sharing of knowledge and practices, and the subjects’ implications in their own works.