This article reports on the curricular traineeship activity held between 2010 and 2011 in a Centro de Referência em Saúde do Trabalhador [Worker's Health Reference Center], Cerest. Eight 4th and 5th year Psychology students from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), observed and coordinated a group - informally named Grupo dos Novos [the Newcomers group] - aimed at offering a warm and welcoming environment for workers seeking healthcare for the first time in the Center. The report presents our ethical, political and aesthetic position concerning health and labor with its restraints and potentialities in the context of a capitalist society. The results endorse the importance of the Welcoming Groups as warranty for universal access, a principle of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). Possible impacts of this experience were analyzed: the Center users had the opportunity to develop a new awareness of their sickening process, no longer from the individual point of view, but related to working conditions; the trainees articulated theory and practice from their experience on popular education, group work as well as institutional analysis; and the Center staff experienced a new method to organize worker's care. We concluded that the Newcomers Group took the first step to defy the logic of health service organization focused on the doctor.
welcoming group; worker's health; traineeship experience; training for healthcare jobs