Disseminação de informações sobre primeiros socorros e prevenção de acidentes em uma comunidade ribeirinha

Abstract

Objectives: To report the experience of a university extension project about first aid and accident prevention in a training activity for the riverside population. Synthesis of data: This is a reported experience lived in October 2015 by medical students from a university in the northern region of Brazil, members of a university extension project, who were invited by the municipality's Civil Defense to instruct, for example, through lectures and practical activities on first aid and accident prevention, residents of the riverside community Santa Maria do Rio Negro (Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil). Conclusion: The university extension project provided the students with the interaction with the riverside population in question, providing, through educational activities of prevention and simulation, the training for the most prepared action in emergencies, the contribution of medical education to the needs public health and strengthening the physician's role in health promotion.