Introduction

The proposals of the current National Health Policy imposes the need for transformation in the forms of health care, consequently, in team work behaviors to achieve a larger view on the health-disease process. Therefore, there is a need to train health professionals in the technical, ethical and political aspects to the transformation of work processes. Then it’s has been proposed by the Ministry of health for courses in distance mode.

Objective

To understand the impact of The Specialization Course in Family Health Care developed in the distance mode (DE) in professional practice of graduates.

Method

qualitative study accomplished through 24 interviews with graduates (11 dentists, 08 nurses, 05 doctors) from a Specialization Course in Family Health Care developed in DE mode conducted by Open University of Brazilian Unique Health System UNA-SUS in collaboration with the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp). The analysis was directed by assumptions of hermeneutical thinking-dialectic, which is included in interpretative perspective of qualitative methodologies.

Results

For the graduates, it was possible to incorporate a broader view of the health needs of the population and the bond establishment, what is essential to the process and innovative care; recognition of the role and the importance of the different team members, leading to new ways to make care and a different vision about the meaning of the family health strategy; to improve the managing process through shared decisions, to organize the work process and to considerate the epidemiological data for the action planning, what involves managements of people, process and information.

Conclusions

Permanent Education Movements like this are essential for the effective implementation of the elements and guideline of SUS, this brings the necessary concepts and practices to a new way of acting and thinking about health.

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