A training course on bioethics for family health strategy professionals in Santo André, SP

Abstract

This case report presents the experience of a training course on bioethics for nurses and physicians of the Family Health Strategy in Santo André, SP. This study is based on problem- based learning and deliberative bioethics, and aimed at presenting the deliberation procedure as a means of handling ethical issues. Contents were addressed in a crosssec tion manner through five sequential ac- tivity sessions at two diff erent moments of concentration with one dispersion interval. In the first moment of concentration, key concepts and deliberative bioethics contents were developed. The second involved delibera tion sessions on moral conflicts, which were selected and prepared during the dispersion interval. Participants evaluated the deliberation as an appropriate instrument to deal with the ethical issues they are faced with. Problem-based learning was an eff ec- tive educational strategy for continuing educa tion in deliberative bioethics.