ABSTRACT
Objective:
to analyze the resistance to interprofessional collaboration in the professional practices of residents in primary health care.
Method:
Social and clinical qualitative research with 32 residents of a Multiprofessional Residency, carried out from 2017 to 2018. Data production included Institutional Analysis of Professional Practices, document analysis; investigator’s diary; and observation. Data were analyzed based on Institutional Analysis concepts.
Results:
There were contradictions between the reproduction of uniprofessional education with a focus on the specialty and interprofessional collaborative practices. The resistance analysis pointed to two axes: not-knowing as an analyzer of resistance to collaboration; interprofessional interference and knowledge-power relations. Residents’ practices were characterized as resistant to interprofessional collaboration.
Conclusion:
The resistance analysis in the Multiprofessional Residency showed integrative movements of assimilation and disputes with physician-centered power, with damage to the sharing of care and interprofessional communication. The collective analysis questioned health professionals education, revisiting the perspective of comprehensive care guided by the users’ needs.
DESCRIPTORS
Interprofessional Education; Internship, Nonmedical; Education, Public Health Professional; Institutional Practice; Primary Health Care; Qualitative Research