A problematização como estratégia didática em aulas sobre uso indevido de drogas e farmacodependência

Abstract

The teaching in health sciences has undergone important changes in recent years. In Brazil, courses such as medicine and nursing have suffered deep modifications in their educational projects of course (PPC) aiming at, generally speaking, the development of skills for greater ability to reason critically. The Pharmacology and Toxicology have highlighted importance in vocational training, because the medicines are the main therapeutic resource used in actuality and human exposure to toxicantes is a public health issue. In this work, we report an experiment of Problem-Based Learning (PBL). Our experimental environment were classes about preventing drug abuse and chemical dependency and our corpus consisted of situations taken from daily life. This work intends to collaborate with a health education more critical-reflective, resulting in the formation of professionals increasingly prepared to act, with quality, in the most diverse health services demanded by modern society.