INVENTORY OF INITIATIVES BY THE EDUCATION-SERVICE-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: EXPERIENCES OF THE MULTICAMPI SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES WITH THE MUNICIPAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF CAICÓ
Extension; Memory; Higher Education.
The integration between teaching, service, and community is one of the fundamental pillars for strengthening the Unified Health System (SUS) in Brazil, consolidating itself as a practical setting for training health professionals capable of acting in a humanistic, critical, reflective, and generalist manner. Institutional memory can be conceived as an essential component to support university administration by strengthening planning, monitoring, and decision-making processes. In this sense, the present study aims to analyze and catalog the initiatives and effects resulting from the intersection between teaching, service, and community between EMCM/UFRN and the Municipal Health Secretariat of Caicó, in Rio Grande do Norte. To carry out this investigation, an exploratory and descriptive documentary research with a qualitative approach was conducted. The research was conducted in collaboration with an emphasis on the partnership between teaching, services, and the community established between the Multicampi School of Medical Sciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Caicó Campus, and the Municipal Health Secretariat of Caicó, in the Seridó Potiguar region. The analysis of the collected data was performed using the Categorical Thematic Content Analysis method proposed by Bardin (2016). We hope to validate the hypothesis that institutional memory ensures the preservation and transmission of history, identity, and knowledge accumulated by institutions over time, constituting a strategic vector for knowledge management.