Interprofessional Education in Health Graduation: Evaluation Aspects of its Implementation in Marilia Medical School (Famema)

Abstract

This paper aims at thinking  on the implementation of health interprofessional education in Famema and pointing out  the main weaknesses and strengths reported by teachers and students during the evaluation process. Interprofessional education has been used  as a teaching strategy in several countries to educate more critical, reflexive professionals who are able to work in a team and to learn together with other professions. It was possible to see that in Famema the presented  weaknesses and strengths were related to the following aspects: a) understanding what is interprofessional education; b) team work in primary health care; c) specialties contents and broader cognitive knowledge;d) evaluation as a learning instance. One may conclude that in spite the challenges this  interprofessional education pattern in Famema is according to the proposed objective.