The teaching-service-management-community integration in the perception of undergraduate students’ preceptors in Primary Health Care

Abstract

National guidelines, regulations and incentives such as the National Curricular Guidelines, Pró-Saúde and PET-Saúde, contributed to fostering an important training arrangement known as "teaching-service-management-community integration". In this context, preceptorship in primary health care (PHC) stands out. Thus, it is relevant to know, from the perspective of preceptors, what is the participation of each actor in this integration and what are the anti-pedagogical and work process barriers that make preceptorship difficult. This study aimed to understand factors that facilitate and hinder integration from the perspective of preceptors of undergraduates within the scope of PHC in the city of São Paulo-SP, Brazil. This is a qualitative, descriptive-exploratory study, which used semi-structured interviews with 14 preceptors, interpreted by thematic content analysis. As main barriers were identified: work overload, devaluation of public health, lack of pedagogical support and distance from the community in the training process. Among the contributions, interprofessional work and the approximation between educational institutions and management when planning the internship stand out. Integration has important issues to be improved from the point of view of preceptors, with a view to facilitating articulation between actors and overcoming training barriers.