Contributions of a graduate program in the health field for professional education: experience report

Abstract

This article reports a learning experience that took place during a graduate course discipline at the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo, where students could make contact with the practice of a methodological discourse analysis strategy. To do this, a working group of students has developed a project aimed at identifying the expectations of graduate students with regard to the course contribution in professional practices. The collection and analysis of the discourse of 21 subjects were conducted. Two questions on the theme were proposed and the answers were collected by using the software QLQT; they were analyzed manually according to the methodological strategy of collective subject discourse. The results indicate that, generally, the subjects who attend a graduate course in the health field believe it influences positively on their professional practices.