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WANDERLEY, Luciana Coutinho Simões et al. The training of educators in family health: an agenda for future activities in Dentistry. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.2, pp. 20-27. ISSN 1679-5954.

The multi-professional residency is a kind of graduate program that gathers health professionals and aims the consonance of the academic education with the public health needs that will take place in primary health care, especially through the Family Health Strategy. This study aims to analyze the perspective of the dental professionals coming from the multiprofessional residency, on the roles of two kinds of educators: tutors and supervisors. The qualitative approach study consists of two steps: document analysis of the multiprofessional residency course at Faculty Santa Marcelina of São Paulo and semistructured interviews with the dentists who graduated from that course. After this analysis it was possible to conclude that the roles of the tutors and supervisors was not clearly defined in the process of the residence academic education, thus making it difficult for them to perform their tasks. The need of a better preparation and definition of these professionals' role is essential for the proper performance of pedagogical practices. Likewise, the need of an Institutionalization of the Human Resources formation becomes evident, in a multi-professional health level, in the curricula of the higher education institutions, in order to enhance this proposal in the primary health care contributing with the promotion, prevention and recovery of people's health.

Palavras-chave : Residency.; Family Health.; Primary Health Care.; Dentistry..