About the therapist occupational Residence practice at family healthcare strategy in São Carlos

Abstract

This study, based on dialectical hermeneutics, investigated the view of occupational therapists posgraduates at University of São Carlos about their practices. During the residence, they worked in a Unit of Family Healthcare in which they are inserted in a matrix organization model and they had permanent education and research based in practice, learning about management of health services, individual and collective care. Seven graduates, who concluded the residence between 2007 and 2011, answered an on-line questionnaire. This material was grouped in accordance to comprehensive and critical social reality knowledge based in the pedagogic project and residence theory. Although each student has had different view, everyone
experienced and recognized, generally, the practice according to Family Health Strategy precepts: comprehensive health care, interdisciplinary, intersectionality, networking, social control, co-responsibility, autonomy and protagonism. Moreover, the answers demonstrated an association between care (individual and collective) to occupational therapy center of knowledge, and groups management and permanent education were associated to community health. In conclusion, the posgraduates recognized the residence as a fundamental experience to their personal and professional formation.