Médico na estratégia saúde da família - manter-se ou engajar-se? um estudo qualitativo sobre a permanência deste profissional na atenção primária à saúde

Abstract

The Community Family Physician is the physician expert trained to meet in Primary Health Care (PHC), with high resolvable in the patients’ pathologies who come to him. However, the presence of doctors in health posts is rare, both for the short time of their stay, for his lack of commitment to the specialty in question. The government has drawn up strategies attractiveness for these professionals, as measures of attachment to internalization, financial incentive in the APS, advantages medical residency test and reduce work hours. This research aimed to understand the reasons which ensure the permanence / engagement of physicians in the ESF in the city of Sobral-CE, from the speeches of some doctors who work there, and investigate the path of academic life in higher education, from narratives autobiographical. Some reasons raised by respondents to the low medical interest in working in the FHS were: non-appreciation of career and specialty of Family and Community Medicine (MFC) by public policies, low wages paid by the SUS doctors, lack of recognition of expertise the part of other medical specialists, and precarious structure of the health posts. Physicians who do remain to be engaged in other activities, such as teaching, medical residency, or administrative activities. The main suggestions for staying effective for doctors in the ESF were to create a plan for jobs and career, merit recognition in the workplace, government support for the development of MFC, demand the title of specialist to work in the APS, and equality salary of the family physician to other physicians SUS.