Establishing the concept of integrality in health during interprofessional education

Abstract

The integration of a healthcare team requires professional training that provides tools to stimulate interprofessional practice. Building the ability to work as a team is necessary for the effectiveness of comprehensive healthcare and for sharing knowledge and insights from different areas regarding the healthcare needs of users. The objective of this work is to present and discuss the results achieved during the reflective methodological process of interprofessional learning that occurred in the development of this mandatory course, “Health-Disease Process and Comprehensive Care”, in the professional master's program in Collective Health. The course was planned to follow the methodological strategy of the Maguerez Arch, with observation of reality guided by the question: “What do you understand by comprehensive healthcare?” Mind maps were created before and after the theoretical stage, whose presentations and discussions were analyzed using Bardin's content analysis method. The identified categories were comprehensiveness as a holistic view of the human being, comprehensiveness as public policy, comprehensiveness as individualized care, and humanization as an essential point of comprehensiveness. After theoretical reflection and, based on it, a different perspective on practice, more operational and objective categories were incorporated: professional training, environment, health education, and interprofessional practice.