ABSTRACT
The Multi-professional Health Residency (RMS) programs provoke reflections on daily work, the relationships and the work process, and have the potential to modify not only the perspective of the graduated individual, but also the spaces in which they develop, strengthening the continuous process of permanent education in health. Studies that investigate how the multi-professional residency programs supported by the Ministry of Health (MS) have been structured are timely and relevant, given the contributions of these initiatives to the Unified Health System (SUS). This work analyzes the RMS, with the goal of identifying how the programs funded by the MS are distributed regionally across the country. An exploratory documentary research was carried out using edicts and ordinances published by the MS in the period from 2009 to 2015. The majority of the approved programs are concentrated in the Southeast region, mainly in São Paulo, followed by the Northeast and South regions. The North and Midwest regions were the least representative in the total amount of the selected programs. On the other hand, the Northeast region presented an increment of programs induced by the priority given in the published official notices. There was an attempt to organize the distribution and a tendency to increase of programs submitted and approved.
KEYWORDS
Health human resource training; Internship nonmedical; Education, continuing