CONSTRUCTION OF A CLINICAL SIMULATION PROGRAM IN A MEDICAL COURSE IN THE BACKLANDS OF PARAÍBA
Teaching; Medicine; Medical Education; Patient Simulation; Primary Health Care.
The social demands related to the specificities of the new health professional led to the transformations in medical education. Therefore, the National Curricular Guidelines suggest that the Pedagogical Projects of Medical Courses contemplate the adoption of active teaching and learning methodologies, in which the student must be protagonist and autonomous in his teaching process and the teacher a facilitator, in addition to ensuring a citizen formation, (re)recognizing himself as an agent of social transformation and guarantee of rights and duties. In view of the methodological possibilities, clinical simulation stands out, which prepares students for learning in a clinical environment. Thus, the objective was to build and propose a clinical simulation program for medical education at the undergraduate level. To this end, a study of multiple methods was adopted, carried out in phases, contemplating in step 1 - the documentary study and in stage 2, the educational action research. The data collection took place in Patos, a city of Paraíba, based on information collected in documents from the Medical Course of the University Center of Patos (UNIFIP), as well as from professors of the Medical Humanities (MH) and Primary Health Care (PHC) axes. As a result, we obtained the mapping of the competencies of the course, the characterization of the laboratory structure of UNIFIP to support the practices of clinical simulation, programmatic contents and the experiences of clinical simulation of the HM and PHC axes. From these results, it was possible to delineate a clinical simulation program for medical education, with emphasis on primary health care and clinical communication skills, based on the simulation experiences existing in the UNIFIP Medical Undergraduate Course.