Interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality in teamwork: perceptions of multiprofessional residents in Hospital Care

Multiprofessional Health Residency Programs were created to further align health training with the needs of the population and, through an emphasis on teamwork, have been contributing to the consolidation of the Brazilian Unified Health System. The present study sought to understand the perceptions of a group of multiprofessional residents in Hospital Care about interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality within the scope of teamwork. This is a qualitative study that had the participation of 29 multiprofessional residents in the 'Hospital Care' area of concentration, all female (six psychologists, six social workers, six nurses, six physiotherapists and five nutritionists). Data were collected by means of a semi-structured interview script. The corpuswas subjected to thematic content analysis. Most of the participants: (1) reported that their first contact with the notion of interdisciplinarity occurred when they were in college, which led to them assimilating it as a synonym for joint action, and (2) claimed to have no knowledge of the notion of interprofessionality, but valued the horizontalization of relations between health professionals. Additionally, important conditions concerning both interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality were not emphasized by the participants. Further studies on the subject are needed, due to its importance for public health.

Educação interprofissional e prática colaborativa na formação em educação física: reflexões de uma experiência na perspectiva da tutoria / Interprofessional education and collaborative practice in physical education training: reflections of an experience from the perspective of tutoring

Resumo Esse artigo objetiva descrever as características do componente curricular "módulo interprofissional em saúde" oferecido aos estudantes de graduação da área de saúde na Universidade de Pernambuco e apresentar um relato das experiências vivenciadas em atividades de tutoria, com destaque para a análise do cenário do núcleo da educação física. Essa estratégia de educação interprofissional e de prática colaborativa funciona em dois momentos pedagógicos, concentração e dispersão, que possibilitam o estudante entender o processo colaborativo de trabalho na perspectiva da integralidade e do cuidado na atenção à saúde em rede. Durante a concentração, estudantes do primeiro período reconhecem as possibilidades de atuação de seu núcleo em articulação com os demais e têm contato com conceitos da saúde coletiva. Durante a dispersão, os estudantes constroem e executam ações interprofissionais em uma instituição de ensino vinculada à estratégia de saúde da família, sendo as práticas corporais estratégias corriqueiras. Percebe-se que há uma mudança de atitude sobre a possibilidade de atuação no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS); entretanto, é preciso que os conteúdos da saúde coletiva, inclusive a interprofissionalidade e as práticas colaborativas, perpassem toda a trajetória de formação em educação física, propiciando a qualificação para a integralidade da atenção no SUS.

Abstract This article seeks to describe the characteristics of the curricular component "interprofessional health module", offered to undergraduate health students at the Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE) and to show a report of experiences in tutoring activities, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the Physical Education core scenario. This strategy of interprofessional education and collaborative practice works in two pedagogical moments, concentration and dispersion, which enable the student to understand the collaborative work process from the perspective of comprehensiveness and care in network health care. During concentration, health students from the first period recognize the possibilities of their core acting in articulation with others and have contact with concepts of collective health. During dispersion, students build and perform interprofessional actions, in an educational institution linked to the family health strategy, and body practices are commonplace strategies. We noticed that there is a change in attitude about the possibility of acting in the Brazilian National Health System (SUS); however, the contents of collective health, including interprofessionality and collaborative practices, must permeate the entire training path in Physical Education, providing the qualification for comprehensiveness of care in SUS.