Permanent education in community health agents: experience of an intervention project

Abstract

The objective of this work is to report the experience of students of the medical course at the Federal University of Vales do Jequitinhonha and Mucuri (UFVJM) in an intervention project that aimed to train Community Health Agents (CHA) of a Family Health Strategy in the municipality of Diamantina/MG. The project was developed between the months of April and July 2016 by eight students and one professor from the UFVJM Medicine course. 10 weekly meetings were held with duration of 2 hours each, whose focus was the training of CHAs on themes chosen through the prevalence of diseases in the area in which the health team operates. It is of utmost importance the permanent health education of the CHA, which aims to positively influence the health indicators of the community through a more effective construction of the technical-scientific-reflective knowledge inherent in the daily routine of the health professional.

Keywords

• atenção primária à saúde
• capacitação
• educação continuada
• estratégia de saúde da família