Abstract
ABSTRACT The More Doctors Program is a strategic set of actions for the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) aiming at improvements in medical education, professional qualification and retention of doctors in unassisted areas. Among these actions, we highlight the Project More Doctors for Brazil (PMMB), responsible for the emergency supply of doctors. It was conceived as a response to the shortage of professionals in primary care across the country, an extremely important aspect in this set of strategies for SUS. The professional improvement proposed by PMMB has mobilized public higher education institutions to participate as supervisory institutions. They are responsible for supervising the activities developed by doctors and for strengthening the continuing education policy through teaching-service integration actions. This article aims to report on the experience of managing academic supervision in light of the challenge of the implementation of PMMB.
Highlights
The More Doctors Program (PMM) was established by a provisional presidential decree in July 2013 and the law that regulates it was enacted in October of the same year[1]
The program aims to: increase the number of doctors in primary care, reduce regional inequalities, strengthen primary care, improve medical education targeted at the needs of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS), strengthen the permanent education policy through teaching-service integration, with emphasis on partnerships with higher education institutions by means of academic supervision, promote knowledge and experience exchange between Brazilian health professionals and doctors graduated from foreign institutions, and, last but not least, to qualify doctors for SUS, focusing on its management, healthcare and health education[1]
Under the name of Project More Doctors for Brazil (PMMB), emergency supply is materialized by means of national and international Notices and through international cooperation for doctors’ adherence to work in primary care
Summary
(a, b) Departamento de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei. Praça Dom Helvécio, 74, Pavilhão de Aulas, campus Dom Bosco. The More Doctors Program is a strategic set of actions for the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) aiming at improvements in medical education, professional qualification and retention of doctors in unassisted areas. Among these actions, we highlight the Project More Doctors for Brazil (PMMB), responsible for the emergency supply of doctors. The professional improvement proposed by PMMB has mobilized public higher education institutions to participate as supervisory institutions They are responsible for supervising the activities developed by doctors and for strengthening the continuing education policy through teaching-service integration actions.
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