The study aimed to investigate teaching-learning practices, institutional arrangements, and the participation of different actors on the undergraduate course in medicine in the city of Sobral in the Brazilian State of Ceará (CE). It is a qualitative descriptive study collecting data from individuals and group interviews. The study participants were coordinators, faculty and students of a public medical school. Discourse analysis was the technique used for analysis of the empirical material. The results indicated three aspects in which the medical school placed its bets in order to change: curriculum in modules as a pedagogical innovation, the problem-based learning strategy, and the Family Health Strategy as a central axis for the educational change. It was concluded that the discourses place the pedagogical techniques per se as the center of the debate. Primary health care appears as the space par excellence for embracement and co-responsibility in the production of care.
Medicine; Medical Education Problem-Based Learning; Public Health