Academic monitoring in health teaching: challenges and possibilities in an interprofessional health curriculum

Abstract

Introduction: This article comes from the research “Academic Monitoring: a study of monitors from Campus Baixada Santista, Universidade Federal de São Paulo”. The theoretic framework was made up of the dialogue with the literature of monitoring at the university, as well as the conceptual axis habitus of Pierre Bourdieu. Objective: Discuss the Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Campus Baixada Santista’s academic monitoring as a potential health training space from the students perceptions about the experience of being monitor inside an interdisciplinary and interprofessional curriculum. Methods: The data were produced from a questionnaire to 41 monitors and submitted to thematic content analysis. Results: The academic monitoring contributes to the personal development of the monitor, overcoming attitudes and postures and expanding the possibilities of integration in professional experiences. Conclusion: The student who predisposes to development the monitor function acting inside the proposal curriculum of Campus Baixada Santista inevitably comes across situations that prepare them for health practice, from the perspective of interprofessional work, diversity, teamwork and exchange of knowledge.