Abstract

LISTON, Júlia de Sá; HENICKA, Mariana Andréa de Moura  and  LIMA, Rita de Cássia Gabrielli Souza. Interpersonal Relations within the Context of the Sérgio Arouca Project: Contributions to Medical Training. Rev. Bras. Educ. Med. [online]. 2019, vol.43, n.4, pp.72-81.  Epub Sep 12, 2019. ISSN 1981-5271.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-52712015v43n4rb20190057.

The Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), a piece of national heritage achieved at the VIII National Health Conference, is recognized by the 1988 Federal Constitution. The same Constitution that approved the creation of the system, also required a democratic horizon for health training in Brazil to be developed through teaching, research and community outreach activities. That required horizon became feasible (and remains constitutionally valid) due to art. 207 of the Federal Constitution that determines that universities fulfill the principle of being inseparably linked to the three education modalities. This article analyzes the ethical, political and epistemological features of the interpersonal relations experienced within the Sérgio Arouca Project from the perspective of Medicine students from the University of Vale do Itajaí (SC), Brazil. The Sérgio Arouca Project was designed in 2009, inspired by the Rondon Project. It has community outreach characteristics and its objective is to afford Medicine students the opportunity to be immersed in the social context of primary health care services in socially disadvantaged territories in the state of Santa Catarina. This research is a qualitative, exploratory, analytical social study. Combining teaching, community outreach and research, it was developed by seven academic students using focus group and field diary methods. The findings demonstrated that interpersonal relations developed in the context of the Project were pervaded by applied ethics, dialectic epistemology and responsive political action with oneself and with other members of the group. Thus, the Project was considered a respite, decelerating processes and valuing education outside the everyday epistemological, curricular structure and thereby presenting the opportunity to experience encounters and reflect on the fundamental values for building interpersonal relationships in medical care, where love is revealed as the underlying matrix-value of an ethics with the power to substantiate the political action of good clinical practice. It was concluded that the interpersonal relationship that Medicine requires for Brazil is an inter-people relationship in dialogue with the context of the cared person; a relationship, especially in primary care, with the macro context of the reflections that will be presented here.

Keywords : –Interpersonal Relations; –Community-Institutional Relations; –Education, Medical; –Primary Health Care; –Brazilian Unified Health System.

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