Cristiane Martins Peres

Atividades extracurriculares: multiplicidade e diferenciação necessárias ao currícu

Recent studies point to the importance of more comprehensive investigations about the universe of medical education, emphasizing the complex scenario of attitudes involved. Although the course is exhausting, medical students participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities during graduation, thus aggregating multiple experiences to their academic curricula. Using triangulation of methods, this study assessed how medical students perceive their extracurricular activities and the role these play in their education. The study was conducted based on 3 strategies: 1) Questionnaires applied to 1st-6th-year medical students (n = 423); 2) Individual interviews (n = 24); 3) Interviews with two focal groups (n = 14). Qualitative data analysis shows that the medical students identify their involvement in extracurricular activities and/or programs as attempts to fill in curricular gaps, interact with colleagues, supplement the graduation course, increase their well-being and answer to professional queries, in summary, a variety of motivations The individual and collective dimension of this methodology allowed all heterogeneity inherent to the everyday life of medical education to emerge.

Aprendizado eletrônico na formação multiprofissional em saúde: avaliação inicial

As part of the proposal of the National Program for Reorientation of Professional Training in Health (Pro-Saude), this report discusses the project at the Ribeirao Preto School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo (FMRP/USP). The focus is a strategy for the inclusion of information and communication technologies in extramural undergraduate training at FMRP, aimed at defining and deploying e-learning technological resources to support student and faculty activities, information management, continuing education, and formative second opinion. The methodological approach designed both the process of covering part of the actions from the Setting for Practice in Primary Healthcare pertaining to expansion of the fiber optic network, essential for supporting and developing ICT use, and the qualitative approach of an exploratory study on the use of e-learning in the first year of the Community Healthcare course in the undergraduate medical program. The study used two focus groups and a structured questionnaire for students and faculty.