This week, the Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) welcomed eight new residents to the Multidisciplinary Residency Program in Health Care for People with Disabilities (RESPCD), a pioneer in Brazil in the area. The new residents form the fifth class and will work a week of 60 class hours for the next two years. The Program is developed at the ISD units in Macaíba, which are the Anita Garibaldi Health Education and Research Center (Anita) and the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience (IIN-ELS), which includes the joint action interface with the Postgraduate Program in Neuroengineering, also a pioneer in the segment in the country.

“We expect residents to be residents who understand the professional skills in health care for people with disabilities and who, throughout their training, encounter scenarios that provide the acquisition of autonomy for future work in the market. They came very motivated by the institutional mission with the expectation of meeting them”, declares the multidisciplinary neuropsychologist preceptor and coordinator of ISD's Health Teaching Activities, Samantha Maranhão.

RESPCD is aimed, for now, at professionals in the areas of Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, Psychology and Social Work, bringing together the areas of teaching, research and extension, strengthening both the Care Network for People with Disabilities in the context of the Unified Health System ( SUS), included in the National Plan for the Rights of People with Disabilities – Plano Viver sem Limite. The ISD is awaiting the release of funds for the payment of scholarships, from the Ministry of Education, for the inclusion of Nursing and Occupational Therapy professionals in the program, which has no deadline to occur.

Residents will work in the health care of people with hearing, physical, intellectual and visual disabilities and in assisting users of the Epilepsy, Parkinson's, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Childhood and Adult Spinal Cord Injury, Microcephaly, Prematurity and Neurogenic bladder.

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The new class was welcomed with a program divided into welcoming activities promoted by ISD's multi-professional preceptors and veteran residents, who are in the second and final year of the course. On the first day at the Institute, the newcomers introduced themselves and explained to some preceptors and residents from the second class why they chose to do the program at ISD.

“In this first week we introduce the new residents to all the work of the Institute, the two units and their functions, explain what the teaching activities are and what their routine will be like over the next two years. Thus, we try to integrate them into a new way of working, getting to know the new environment, the preceptors and the ISD's multidisciplinary activities”, explains the coordinator of the Multiprofessional Residency, Lorenna Santiago.

One of the new entrants to the Residency, the psychologist graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Campus FACISA), Isabelly Oliveira, highlights that she was motivated to attend RESPCD because she identifies with the program area. “The issue of people with disabilities touches me a lot because of my sister who is PWD. From this, I began to see the importance of strengthening care for this public not only in health, but socially, guaranteeing access rights for all people with or without disabilities, to health, education, culture”.

This Friday, the 4th, the new residents visited the CER ISD structure, set up in the building of the Anita Garibaldi Health Education and Research Center (Anita). “Residents got to know CER IV ISD, which is their main area of activity. We show the performance from a multidisciplinary, care point of view, in teaching, research and health education for users and the community. Our objective is to train culturally qualified and competent professionals to deal with the health of people with disabilities and strengthen the Unified Health System (SUS)”, emphasizes Camila Simão, multidisciplinary physiotherapist preceptor and coordinator of CER ISD.

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The Multidisciplinary Residency in Health Care for People with Disabilities has been offered by ISD since 2018. The program's main field of activity is the Anita Garibaldi Health Education and Research Center and the Specialized Center for Physical, Hearing, Visual and Intellectual Rehabilitation ( CER IV), from ISD, in addition, activities are also developed at the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neurosciences (IIN-ELS).

The ISD Residency Program brings together the areas of teaching, research and extension, with a focus on strengthening the Care Network for People with Disabilities in the context of the Unified Health System (SUS). person with a disability, in neurosciences and neuroengineering.

Service to the population is offered through the Unified Health System (SUS) and, in the CER, includes people with drug-resistant epilepsy; Parkinson's; Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); Spinal Cord Injury; Microcephaly; Hearing deficiency; Prematurity and Neurogenic Bladder. This is the first CER in the Northeast of Brazil with operations integrated into a research and innovation system through joint work with IIN-ELS.