Permanent Education in Immunization of Children: A New Approach to Undergraduate and Health Services
Continuing Education; Active Methodology; Childhood Immunizations; Vaccine Delay.
Nowadays, even with the 24-hour mass media / information available, reinforcing the importance of vaccination being updated to prevent infectious morbidities, the delay of vaccines in the child population is a common fact in all social strata, due to the myths Popular and the erroneous adverse effects, often reinforced by the health professionals involved. Among the causes of this non-qualification of professionals is how much this subject is approached in the graduation as in the several training courses promoted by the three management spheres that are ineffective in this area. This scenario is not different from that currently found in the Basic Care of the municipality of Caicó / RN. In view of this, the objective of this project is to develop a permanent education program in immunization of the child for the health professionals of Primary Care of Caicó and to improve the teaching of this subject in the graduation of Medicine of the Multicampi School of Medical Sciences of UFRN (EMCM). Based on the bibliography pertinent to the theme, the mini course was structured and the booklet and the teaching manual were made. After giving the course, an instrument was applied to evaluate the degree of satisfaction of the participants regarding the mini-course in the self-assessment. Using the Likert scale, the means and standard deviations of the responses of 13 participants were calculated and then categorized into: Bad (≤ 2), Regular (between 2 and 4) and Good (≥ 4). The results show that there was a positive perception of the target students about their participation, suggesting that the format of the mini-course satisfactorily favored permanent education under the theme of immunization Child.