Abstract

CUNHA, Mateus Rodrigues; FONSECA, Graciela Soares; ARAUJO, Maria Ercília de  and  ZILBOVICIUS, Celso. The Scientific Initiation as a pedagogical strategy for education and service integration in the SUS. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.2, pp. 33-44. ISSN 1679-5954.

Extramural activities in the Dental undergraduate course have been shown as a very important and include supervised internships, and teaching-research-extension work. The aim of this study was to evaluate the scientific initiation (SI) in the Brazilian Public Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS) as extramural learning strategy and integration between education and service. Using interviews, a SI student conducted a qualitative study that investigated the perception of managers, users and servers about the public oral health system of the city of Carapicuíba/SP. Two analyzes were prepared with this material. The first one was a Bardin's content analysis, from interviews with users, servers and manager. The second one was the student's perception regarding the experience without the presence of the advisor. The student concluded that SI in SUS environment enabled a critical dialogue between reality and the theoretical content of the laws, regulations and management of a municipal system of oral health. Therefore, the SI is a rich tool for learning the public health system and for the development of undergraduate student skills, contributing to the training of qualified professionals to work in the system.

Keywords : Health Manpower.; Education Dental.; Public Health.; Teaching Care Integration Services.; Health Services Research..