scholarly journals Commitment to Care for the Community and COVID-19: teaching-learning approach to medical education in primary health care in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 351-358
Author(s):  
Bruno Bastos Godoi ◽  
Luiza Vilas Boas Freitas ◽  
Delba Fonseca Santos
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Collaborative Teams ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Teaching Learning

The major challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic to all countries has been to their healthcare systems and how to face it with excellence. Medical education can contribute in a short period so that the health system responds effectively to the current challenges imposed by the pandemic. Political implications identification and action are important to show that they can convert ideas into realities. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, literacy in individual, community, and population health is more important than ever. As knowledge about COVID-19 grows rapidly, so does the opportunity to shape more effective interprofessional educational practices. During this pandemic, interprofessional collaborative teams are more crucial than ever in health promotion, mainly at the Primary Health Care.

Nursing supervised curricular internship in the Covid-19 pandemic: experience in the program Brasil Conta Comigo

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Arcipreti Boel Souza ◽  
Heliny Carneiro Cunha Neves ◽  
Natália Del Angelo Aredes ◽  
Isabel Cristina Lima Jobim Medeiros ◽  
George Oliveira Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Government Program ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Government ◽  
Teaching Learning

ABSTRACT Objective: To report the experience of the nursing supervised curricular internship in the program “O Brasil Conta Comigo” carried out in the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: Experience report of activities developed in Primary Health Care in a municipality in the southern region of the state of Goiás during the Covid-19 pandemic, from April to November 2020. Results: The inclusion in the government program allowed the strengthening of the student’s active role in the teaching-learning process and teaching-service approximation, with the student as the point of connection, which resulted in the implementation of actions for the fight against the pandemic in the municipality, such as elaboration, implementation, and evaluation of the service flowchart for people with suspected Covid-19. Conclusion: The experience was successful, as it consolidated knowledge regarding leadership and autonomy, integration between theory and practice, critical thinking, and evidence-based problem solving. The participation in the program allowed for contributions to assistance and management in the actions to combat the new coronavirus in the scope of primary care, as well as for the contribution to the training of the student tutored by nurses in the field and supervised by professors from the federal university of origin.

Predicting general practitioner utilisation at a small area level across Western Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 570
Author(s):  
Greg Lyle ◽  
Delia Hendrie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Small Area ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Universal Healthcare ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Small Area Level ◽  
Gp Services ◽  
Geographic Differences

Equitable delivery of GP services is a key goal in universal healthcare systems. In Australia, information to evaluate equitable delivery is limited, especially at finer geographic scales, leaving an information void that needs to be filled to inform, prioritise and target interventions. To fill this void, GP utilisation was estimated by combining responses on GP utilisation from a national survey differentiated by demographic and area-based socioeconomic and remoteness characteristics with similar characteristics represented geographically at a fine scale. These estimates were then compared to actual GP utilisation to evaluate their predictive reliability. Comparable estimates were found in the greater metropolitan area, with 76% of areas having estimated GP utilisation within ±10% of actual utilisation. Larger discrepancies were found as areas became remoter, with 84% of areas reporting estimated utilisation that was higher than actual utilisation. Comparing the geographic differences between estimated and actual utilisation allowed us to examine the reliability of our methodology. Given the identified limitations, a proxy for GP utilisation at a small area level can be created, a dataset that is not currently published at this geography. This approach has the potential to be applied Australia-wide, providing another valuable tool to evaluate the equitable delivery of primary health care nationally.

The role and place of preventive medicine in the system of higher medical education

1999 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
N. K. Amirov ◽  
V. Y. Albitsky ◽  
А. B. Gallyamov ◽  
А. G. Sukharev
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Future ◽  
Higher Medical Education

The prophetic words of Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov that the future belongs to preventive medicine are becoming a reality, as evidenced by the WHO strategy "Health for All by 2000" and the concept of primary health care for the population.

Undergraduate Medical Education towards Health for All: Progress, Pitfalls, Perspectives

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Antonio C. M. Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Education ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Impact

I discuss aspects of undergraduate medical education related to primary health care and analyse innovative programmes, with emphasis on problem-based methods and community-based education. Assessing the impact of these programmes shows problem-based learning is an interesting didactic exercise but not a necessary or sufficient condition for the adequacy of programmes to the Health for All (HFA) policy. Community-based education is pressed by several obstacles inside and outside educational institutions that put at risk its effectiveness as a real agent of change. Amongst these obstacles are political difficulties in building linkages amongst teaching institutions, services, and community; logistical problems in facilitating faculty and student work in the community; reactions from faculties; poor research opportunities in primary health care; pressures for more socially, professionally, and economically rewarding careers; biases in training the present generation of teachers; attempts to fulfil the social, behavioural, epidemiological, and preventive knowledge requirements for medical education by adding to an already overloaded information base; and shortage of relevant and significant sources of information for the medical students. Building corporations representing ‘innovative’ programmes, on one side, and ‘conservative’, ‘traditional’ ones, on the other, is not helpful and probably false. Each Programme should be assessed in its strength and weaknesses in the light of political decisions committed to change in unequal, poor-quality health systems.

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