Teaching challenges: reflections from the experience in a medicine course

Abstract

Introduction: The new medical courses demand pedagogical and curricular innovations that intensify the challenges of the teaching practice. Objective: This work presents the challenges of teaching in an undergraduate medical course, made possible by the Mais Médicos Program, based on the narrative of three professors. Methodology: it is an experience report from reflective narratives written by each professional in the first term of 2019. They were systematized and organized by one of the authors. Results: Two of the professors are graduated in dentistry, with postgraduate studies in the area of ​​collective health, participating in eight regular curriculum component components linked to this area. The third professor is a pharmacist, with a postgraduate degree in Biological Sciences and composes the components of Biological Processes III and IV and Emerging Themes in Medical Education 3. The narratives reveal how the current scenario is unique and what the current problem is. The counter-hegemonic model of the medical course generates insecurity for the actors involved, mainly due to the lack of comparative reference. Also, the construction of the course requires extra energy since it starts from zero to organize the demands. The use of active learning methodologies is another challenge since the documents were formed from the perspective of the traditional model. Another aspect pointed out as challenging by the three professors - calling attention to the fact that none of them are doctors - is the graduation training in other courses in the health area and the extent to which this causes misunderstandings and resistance, revealed by students and doctors. Finally, in the current context of teaching, the intensive use of technological devices has been addressed by professors as a challenge, perhaps the most complex of them since its use is massive and it is hard to "compete" with it and organize the lessons to be attractive to make students “disconnect” from it to focus on what is being done. Conclusion: It was concluded that teaching in medical courses, especially in those guided by DCN, presents varied challenges that require understanding and circumvented to provide a successful practice.