Abstract
Based on the relevance of formation-inducing policies for, with and in the Unified Health System (SUS), this article aims to present the participation of Occupational Therapy undergraduate course of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in national policies (Pró-Saúde and PET-Saúde), as well as indicate the perspectives and challenges that still exist. It is an experience report about how, with other university courses, the Occupational Therapy course reviewed its curriculum matrix, creating new teaching and learning methodologies that provide professional training ethically committed to SUS and that recognize the strategic role of Primary Care in the ways of thinking and acting in health. In this context, a Basic Health Unit in the vicinity of the University was chosen and started to receive students from six subjects remodeled to promote greater integration between teaching and health service. Extension actions and research projects were also developed, covering populations historically served by Occupational Therapy, but with limited access to primary care. Finally, a compulsory subject on the topic was created. The initiatives of the Occupational Therapy course were configured as resistance to processes in which the productivist logic captures the production of care. Therefore, they sought to raise awareness of the actors, to give visibility to their know-how aligned to the perspective of integrality, and to articulate them in the construction of fertile lands to produce health and living within the differences.
Keywords:
Education; Continuing; Health Workforce; Occupational Therapy; Primary Health Care; Health Vulnerability