The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD), a reference in teaching, research and extension in maternal and child health, people with disabilities, neuroscience and neuroengineering, will be an internship site for the first time for the Neurology Residency Program at the Pará State University Center (CESUPA).

The “exchange” begins this Monday (05) with physiotherapist Ana Paula Monteiro de Araújo, in her second year of residency in the Pará program. For a month, she will develop activities at the Anita Garibaldi Center for Education and Research in Health and at the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience (IIN-ELS), at the ISD, in Macaíba (RN), expanding the movement of students from different parts of Brazil and the world who see the Institute as a reference training center for health professions. 

“This is a movement that has been intensifying and that tends to expand even further in the coming years at the Institute”, says Lilian Lisboa, Anita’s manager.

The ISD has its own Multiprofessional Residency program in Health Care for People with Disabilities and, in Rio Grande do Norte, it maintains agreements with five Medical Residency Programs (Gynecology and Obstetrics MEJC, Gynecology and Obstetrics HUAB, Neuropediatrics HUOL, Pediatrics HUOL, and Pediatrics HUAB) and four Multiprofessional Residency Programs (Maternal and Child EMCM, Maternal and Child HUAB, Child Health HUOL and Neonatology MEJC) linked to UFRN.

In the first half of 2020, the Institute also signed an agreement with the Varela Santiago Children's Hospital (HIVS), with which it now works with 100% of the pediatric medical residency programs existing in the state. 

“We welcome undergraduate students from UFRN for internships and, in postgraduate studies, medical residencies and the Multiprofessional program have already attracted professionals from states such as São Paulo, Paraíba and, in 2021, from Bahia for the first time”, says Lilian. 

“Being seen as a reference center for the practical training of these students, as a service of excellence that will add to them an exchange of experiences and knowledge that can be applied and added to other services within and outside the Unified Health System is extremely healthy for everyone”, he adds.

At the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience, this reality is also visible in the Master's in Neuroengineering, with students from institutions in different regions of Brazil and abroad.

Teaching-learning
During her internship at ISD, Ana Paula Monteiro de Araújo will have to complete a total workload of 300 hours, during which she will observe clinical care, participate in technical supervision and offer training to ISD students, as a means of fostering the exchange of knowledge.

The resident will carry out activities in the clinics for autism, neurogenic bladder, Parkinson's, epilepsy, children and adult spinal cord injury. She will have as practice scenarios both Anita and IIN-ELS, in projects linked to the Specialized Rehabilitation Center.

In the Neurology Residency Program in Pará, aimed at physiotherapy, nursing and nutrition professionals, she gained experience in the ICU and ward with neurological patients at the trauma referral hospital, as well as in the oncology area – with patients with neurological involvement – from where she will move on to the neonatal ICU and pediatric care.

“Throughout my undergraduate studies, my line of research was focused on Parkinson's Disease, but I always wanted to delve deeper into neuropediatrics, which I began to pursue during my residency, and I think the experience I will have at Anita will add to my experience in every way,” notes Ana Paula.

“One of the advantages I see is that the exchange with the multidisciplinary team will be different, because here the program brings together different professions from ours (in addition to physiotherapy, the ISD program includes speech therapy, social work and psychology). In addition, I will gain more time in the outpatient area, with which I identify more, and experience with autism, an area in which I still cannot work directly in Pará and in which there is still a lot to discover”.

On the first day of her internship, this Monday, Ana Paula was initially welcomed with an institutional presentation of ISD's work.

The presentation was given by social worker and tutor Alexandra Lima and also included the participation of Raquel Praxedes, a resident at Onofre Lopes University Hospital who is starting a month of internship in pediatrics residency at Anita, and Pricila Rezende, Ikaro Patrício, Lidiane Delgado, Fernanda Elizabeth, Liziane Mafra and Rachel Souza, from the 9th and 10th periods of undergraduate physiotherapy at UFRN, who will be doing internship activities in the areas of gynecology and obstetrics. In the photo below, they appear in a supervised practical activity.