TY - JOUR AU - Maciel, Jacques Antonio Cavalcante AU - Castro-Silva, Igor Iuco AU - Dias, Maria Socorro de Araújo AU - Vasconcelos, Maristela Inês Osawa PY - 2022/02/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Does permanent health education walk alone towards interprofessionality? A dentist’s perspective: JF - ABCS Health Sciences JA - ABCS Health Sci. VL - 47 IS - SE - Original Articles DO - 10.7322/abcshs.2020175.1624 UR - https://portalnepas.org.br/abcshs/article/view/1624 SP - e022205 AB - <p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Permanent health education (PHE) is a strategy for qualifying work to improve patient care.<strong> Objective:</strong> To analyze dentists' perspectives on the PHE actions in the context of Primary Health Care. <strong>Methods:</strong> This qualitative case report study conducted through semi-structured interviews with 26 dentists in primary health care and five managers of PHE actions in the city of Sobral, in the Brazilian Northeast. <strong>Results:</strong> Data analysis was performed using the Collective Subject Discourse anchored in the following social representations: characterization of PHE actions as educational actions through theoretical-conceptual moments, with an emphasis on technical-scientific approaches and transmissive methodologies of an unprofessional nature; critical reflexivity in indicating improvements for these actions through the incorporation of interprofessional education in PHE actions. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The involvement of continuing education actions in PHE has the potential to problematize work and develop strategies for the qualification of patient care, without losing the technical and scientific characteristics of each profession.</p> ER -