[Implementation of a residency program in anesthesiology in the Northeast of Brazil: impact on work processes and professional motivation].
OBJECTIVE
Understand, through the theory of social representations, the influence exerted by the establishment a residency program in anesthesiology on anesthetic care and professional motivation in a tertiary teaching hospital in the Northeast of Brazil.


METHODS
Qualitative methodology. The theoretical framework comprised the phenomenology and the Social Representation Theory. Five multidisciplinary focus groups were formed with 17 health professionals (five surgeons, five anesthesiologists, two nurses, and five nursing technicians), who work in operating rooms and post-anesthesia care units, all with prior and posterior experience to the establishment of residency.


RESULTS
From the response content analysis, the following empirical categories emerged: motivation to upgrade, recycling of anesthesiologists and improving anesthetic practice, resident as an interdisciplinary link in perioperative care, improvements in the quality of perioperative care, recognition of weaknesses in the perioperative process. It was evident upper gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to prolonged intubation that the creation of a residency in anesthesiology brings advancements that are reflected in the motivation of anesthesiologists; the resident worked as an interdisciplinary link between the multidisciplinary team; there was recognition of weaknesses in the system, which were identified and actions to overcome it were proposed.


CONCLUSIONS
The implementation of a residency program in anesthesiology at a tertiary education hospital in the Northeast of Brazil promoted scientific updates, improved the quality of care and processes of interdisciplinary care, recognized the weaknesses of the service, developed action plans and suggested that this type of initiative may be useful in remote areas of developing countries.
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil; Centro de Ensino e Treinamento/Ministério da Educação/Sociedade Brasileira de Anestesiologia (CET/MEC/SBA), Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. Electronic address: clauregifer@gmail.com.
Cláudia Regina
CR
Fernandes
CET/MEC/SBA, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Sobral, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Sobral, CE, Brasil.
Rafael Queiroz de
RQ
Sousa
CET/MEC/SBA, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Sobral, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Sobral, CE, Brasil.
Francisco Sávio Alves
FS
Arcanjo
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil; CET/MEC/SBA, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Sobral, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Sobral, CE, Brasil.
Gerardo Cristino de Menezes
GC
Neto
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil; CET/MEC/SBA, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Sobral, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Sobral, CE, Brasil.
Josenília Maria Alves
JM
Gomes
Univesidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
Renata Rocha Barreto
RR
Giaxa
Anestesiologia; Anesthesiology; Assistência perioperatória; Medical residency; Mentoring; Perioperative care; Residência médica; Tutoria