Medical Training. Integrated health Community. SAMU.
The Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) of Rio Grande do Norte, in a decentralization process, reached the Seridó and Trairi region in the years 2013 and 2014, with the objective of reaching early victims of health problems, be they clinical or traumatic. In the same period, the Multicampi School of Medical Sciences of Rio Grande do Norte (EMCM / UFRN) started its academic activities in the undergraduate medical course, with active methodologies developing more and more the autonomy of students and promoting their early approach with students. health services and the community. Through the module of Integrated Living in Community 7 (VIC), the SAMU of the municipalities of Caicó, Currais Novos and Santa Cruz, received students from the 7th period of the medical course to learn about the service's routine and functioning, in addition to following the process work of the multidisciplinary team in their daily work. The research that follows seeks to identify the potential and challenges of the training experience in pre-hospital care from the student's perspective. This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study that used both the researcher's experience at SAMU and the students' reports about the impact of the inclusion of SAMU in their education in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 as data. From our thematic analysis four categories were created, namely: “The moment at the central SAMU, consisted only of a conference”; “Upon entering the service, we became part of what used to be mere speculation”; “Every experience is valid for training, even if we don't reach all expectations”; and "Teaching and learning are the master springs of the same process", with which we were able to work with the students' speeches. VIC7 at SAMU had a positive impact on both student training and service. Based on the results, this work intends to encourage SAMU and EMCM-UFRN to remedy or minimize the weaknesses pointed out to ensure a greater use of VIC, serving as a guide for other training institutions that wish to implement this methodology in their curricula and thus reflect positively in the training of medical students.