PET–Health Interprofessionality CER II: Group narratives on everyday work activities in front of the changes driven by Covid-19

ABSTRACT

This article recounts the experiences of a group of students, preceptors and tutors participating in the Education through Work for Health Program- PET-Health Interprofessionality at the Federal University of Sao Paulo in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. We constructed collective narratives based on the students’, preceptors’ and tutors’ accounts. The narratives reveal personal difficulties, distress caused by social distancing, changes at work and the university, and concern with offering new forms of care to service users. The findings demonstrate that online activities demand much more from the actors involved, prompting them to reflect on interprofessional education. Using narratives, we recount what happens in a context of ruptures and how the group became stronger and reinvented care strategies. By narrating touching group experiences as a group, these experiences become collective and share a way of experiencing the world.