The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) closes yet another cycle of professional training in partnership with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). In an unprecedented way, residents of the Medical Residency Program in Family and Community Medicine, linked to the University Hospital Onofre Lopes (HUOL/UFRN), were immersed in the two ISD units in Macaíba for three months. Together with the ISD professionals, they monitored activities in maternal and child health care and health care for people with disabilities, in addition to research in the areas of neuroscience and neuroengineering.
According to Samantha Maranhão, Coordinator of Health Education Activities at the ISD, one of the main objectives of the institutional partnership between the ISD and the UFRN Health Residency Programs is to insert residents in training into multidisciplinary learning scenarios, enabling the experience of the centered model in the person and in the family as a health care strategy integrated to the community.
“We provide the development of specialized professional skills in the health care of people with disabilities, from the perinatal period to aging. This route optimizes the entry of medical residents into primary care, making them aware of preventive health management”, he explains.
Integral health care and welcoming users of different age groups are factors that made Rafael Nóbrega, 26, graduated from Universidade Potiguar (UnP), interested in living with family and community. During his three months at the ISD, Nóbrega was able to closely monitor and learn about rehabilitation, high-risk pregnancy and pediatrics. He considers that the experience broadened his perspectives to different possibilities of action.
“My time at ISD provided a multiprofessional vision of health care and knowledge that completely changed the way I see medicine. Without a doubt, today I feel much safer to contribute to the health care of people in each of the areas I have known. I was able to realize the importance and influence that having this knowledge can have on people's lives, which inspires me even more to dedicate myself to studying medicine” says Rafael.
Guilherme Queiroz, 26, graduated from UFRN, emphasizes the importance of a multiprofessional vision and care centered on the person and the family for a better reception and follow-up of the user, and considers the experience of teamwork at the ISD as one of the highlights of his training professional and personal.
“I've always enjoyed working with the SUS and with people with greater vulnerability, where often having a qualified listener, an attentive view of the complaints, already makes a huge difference within the individual's therapeutic plan. I will certainly have a much broader vision, always trying to cover the needs, improve the quality of life and functionality of the individual”, reinforces Guilherme.
For Laís Crisanto, professor at UFRN and coordinator of the Medical Residency in Family and Community Medicine, the institutional partnership between the ISD and UFRN contributes to expanding training and practice centered on comprehensive and user-centered care, especially in the areas of maternal health children and people with disabilities, which the teacher considers to be little discussed and worked on during medical training.
“It is extremely important that students are included in this training context, because that way they will be able to develop skills related to these two segments, maternal and child health and people with disabilities, which are still very deficient. We need this partnership in order to strengthen training related to handling injuries, rehabilitation and early identification when it comes to these issues. I see as the main point of this partnership the fact that the ISD is an institution that values quality education focused on the problems of the local reality, so it is a very valid alternative and one that has been very successful, of multidisciplinary integration”, points out Laís Crisanto.
Text: Naomi Lamarck / Ascom – ISD
Photograph: Naomi Lamarck / Ascom – ISD
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It is a Social Organization linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC) and includes the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neurosciences and the Anita Garibaldi Health Education and Research Center, both in Macaíba. ISD's mission is to promote education for life, forming citizens through integrated teaching, research and extension actions, in addition to contributing to a fairer and more humane transformation of Brazilian social reality.
