Short films and complex cases for education of primary health care professionals

Luciana Boose Pinheiro,Márcia Rosa Da Costa,Alessandra Dahmer,Maria Eugênia Bresolin Pinto

doi:10.15694/mep.2016.000157

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This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Since 2009, the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), participant of the Brazil's Open Health University (UNA-SUS), has offered an e-learning Family Health Specialization (FHS) Course which has graduated 1902 students (physicians, dentists and nurses). The FHS is a Distance Learning Course (DLC) arranged in two areas. In the first one, general content concerning public health is covered. The second is based on a problem-based-learning strategy in which professionals are exposed to complex clinical cases. The aim of this article is to share a methodological experience in teaching in a Family Health Specialization Distance Learning Course by using complex cases and their adaptation to short films. Forty-two cases designed by the UNA-SUS/UFCSPA's team were used in the FHS course. From these, six were adapted to short films. They have scripted narratives in which literary elements were used to organize the stories and make scenes more similar to what is experienced at work, preserving the clinical aspects to represent the daily life of professionals, patients and their conditions. Topics covered in the films include clinical, social, and family aspects, as well as community-related ones. The scenes depict a realistic portrait of health services provided by Brazil's Universal Health System, they help to develop observation and communication skills, critical analysis of the attitudes, besides clinical knowledge.Complex Cases represent an expressive way to learn and interact with different knowledge and skills which are required of health professionals. Students are able to identify with real-life situations projected into the screen and their imagination to learn about them.

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University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) has been part of the Open University of SUS - UNA-SUS since 2009
The methodological approach of the course is based on the contextualization of contents in fictional cities created in light of narrative theories, already presented in other AMEE1 conferences
Such methodology involves the safeguarding of professional ethical issues and the ambience of contents of the reality experienced by professionals in believable situations

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UFCSPA has been part of the Open University of SUS - UNA-SUS since 2009. UFCSPA is one of the 31 consortium universities and has offered since 2010, as one of the activities of the project, the Specialization Course in Family Health, which uses a distance learning methodology. The methodological approach of the course is based on the contextualization of contents in fictional cities created in light of narrative theories, already presented in other AMEE1 conferences. Such methodology involves the safeguarding of professional ethical issues and the ambience of contents of the reality experienced by professionals in believable situations (orders of simulacra[4])

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