Implementation of a Mental Health internship in a higher education institution

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo,Felipe Pinheiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Bernuci,Marcelo Picinin, Oliveira,Raquel Gusmão de, Ideriha,Nilce Marzolla, Massuda,Ely Mitie, Yamaguchi,Mirian Ueda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Interface (Botucatu. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-32832019000600210
• topic: Mental health; Medical education; Public health policy.

ABSTRACT The approval of the More Doctors Program has triggered a number of readjustments of the National Curricular Guidelines (DCNs) for Medical Education, like the creation of a mental health internship integrated into the health service and community. Due to this demand, the higher education institutions have been encouraged to innovate in their teaching-learning methodologies in order to guarantee a generalist, humanistic and critical professional education. We report the experience of a private higher education institution in the implementation of a mental health internship in consonance with the new DCNs. We present all the steps of the implementation, reporting the participation of students, supervisors, preceptors and managers. We show that a mental health internship linked to different levels of healthcare promotes learning conditions capable of favoring the decentralization of care and application of the community/family approach.