Implementation of a teaching initiation project in public health and its relevance to medical training

Abstract

[EN] The study in question reports on the experience of medical students in monitoring activities in the disciplines of Practices for Integrating Teaching and Community Service. The monitoring was able to increase learning efficiency, motivation and commitment to the syllabus. The process of building the autonomy and critical awareness of the subject and his group about the teaching-learning process was fundamental to these results. The monitoring activity is important for establishing, expanding and fostering knowledge, enabling the exchange of information and knowledge between teachers, student-monitors and students, contributing to improved teaching in curricular components. It is concluded that the monitoring effectively enabled the production of critical thinking, the joint construction of knowledge and the systematization of different points of view between the teacher in charge, the monitors and the students, showing that the monitoring proposal enables the construction of learning based on self-awareness of the teaching-learning process.