APPROACH TO THE ATTRIBUTES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMS AT THE MULTICAMPI SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
Primary Healthcare; Health Professional Qualification; Health Related Residences.
The Health Strategy Family Program amplifies the possibilities of access to the services and care for health maintenance through distinct points of view and knowledges. The essential and derived attributes are foundational elements of the Primary Healthcare acting as evaluation instruments and monitoring its quality. In this context, health related professional qualification programs focused on Primary Healthcare must present them as the direction that grounds the professional practice. This study aimed to identify how Primary Healthcare attributes are being considered and approached by the Primary Healthcare Multiprofessional Residence and by the residence program on Family and Community Medicine of the Medical Sciences Multicampi School. This is a quantitative research, descriptive, in which a questionnaire was applied regarding the level of knowledge over the approach of Primary Healthcare attributes on the qualification process, and the application of the Primary Care Assessment Tool Brasil (Professional version) with 37 students of both residence programs that are also enrolled on Basic Healthcare Units in Caicó/RN and Currais Novos/RN counties, from April to September 2022, in addition to analysis of the data derived from the political-pedagogic project of both health residence programs. From the obtained data, the attribute related to First Contact Access (Accessibility) had the lowest score (3,00), being Coordination – Information Systems the attribute with the highest score (8,03). Amongst the others, just Integrality – Available Services (7,00) and Familiar Orientation (8,00) obtained satisfactory scores. Both the Essential Score (5,89) and the General Score (5,95) were below average. Considering the possibility of being a reflex of the lack of specific guidance to the Primary Care attributes as a structured direction of the political-pedagogic projects of the residence programs, given that she is used as main scenario within the qualification process.