Strengths and Weaknesses in the Undergraduated Professional Training of the Biomedical Career for Practice at Health Surveillance: A Dialectical Perspective of the Intern-Supervisor-Advisor Experience.

Abstract

This paper analyzes the professional training of biomedical scientists in the field of Health Surveillance, guided by the principles of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and by its insertion into real practice settings. It is an experience report aimed for better understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the training process, based on experiences in various health services addressing how the technical knowledge acquired throughout undergraduate biomedical education dealt with daily practice of health actions. Thus, the experiences of two curricular internships - clinical analysis and health surveillance - conducted in a municipality at the inland of Bahia, Brazil, were analyzed and, discussing the strengths and weaknesses, their contributions and the limitations of this training process in the context of health surveillance. In this sense, the authors achieved a dialectical understanding of the impacts of the professional training path for achieving skills as well as of professional practice, while adopting a broader perspective on health surveillance.