Collaborative practices in emergency services in health: The interprofessionality of the “permanecersus” program, health department of the state of bahia, Brazil

Abstract

This article presents and discusses the PermanecerSUS Program a proposal of interprofessional education to the formation in Health. It has a qualitative approach in the perspective of Institutional Ethnography. The discussion focuses on the content registered in the field diary constructed by the researcherethnographer during participant observation sessions carried out at the urgent care units of two hospitals located in the city of Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil. The results suggest that the program develops competencies such as teamwork, intercommunication and joint solution of problems among students, and integrates education and work. However, the challenges of the PermanecerSUS are based on improving the communication relationship between interns and service professionals and investing in the education of internship preceptors, with perspectives of changes in practices and impacts on the quality of care in health services.