Modalidade de educação a distância na formação profissional em saúde da família : relato de experiência

Abstract

The present study reports the experience of a student/professional undertaking a Distance e-learning (DeL) specialization course in Family Health at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. The target group consisted of physicians, nurses and dentists of the primary health care teams in the Family Health Strategy of the municipalities of Ceará state. The Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) was used. This is an online teaching and learning system with various communication tools integrated in a web page, where the disciplines offered are accessed and interaction with a teacher/tutor occurs. The pedagogical assumptions of the course were based on contextually decentralized education and collaborative problematizing learning processes articulated through theory-practice and teaching-health service demands. The incorporation of DeL into the vocational training processes of primary health care professionals constitutes an example, as well as an encouragement, to other vocational and training initiatives for professional qualification throughout the Brazilian Unified Health System.