[Changes in undergraduate education in the health professions from the perspective of comprehensive training].
This article discusses the issue of legal, technical, and political legitimacy for formulating a public policy aimed at organizing the training of health professionals in accordance with the population's health needs, while highlighting the competencies of the education and health sectors in this construction. Comprehensiveness is viewed as the main thrust for proposing and supporting the changes needed in the training of professionals in education and health, since it involves an expanded understanding of health, the linkage among multi-professional and interdisciplinary knowledge and practices, and dialogue/exchange with health system users, aimed at innovation of practices in all scenarios of health care and health sector management.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. ceccim@edu.ufrgs.br
Ricardo Burg
RB
Ceccim
Laura C Macruz
LC
Feuerwerker
D001938:Brazil; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000941:ethics; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000941:ethics; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011364:Professional Practice