This account reports on the experience of the common training that has been taking place since 2007 at the Baixada Santista campus of the Federal University of São Paulo (Southeast Brazil), in the third semester of the undergraduate course, under the health work axis of the curriculum. The experience includes students and professors from different professional areas, ranging from physical education, physical therapy, nutrition, psychology to occupational therapy. The account presents the guidelines and strategies for organizing the 'Integrated clinical practice: analysis of health needs and demands' module, which adopts the production of life history narratives and health issues of people selected by professors together with the teams of the service network from the municipality of Santos, state of São Paulo. The narratives were produced in fortnightly meetings the students held with accompanied people in their homes and meetings held among supervisors and professors. The content of 120 reports on the completion of the module, produced by the students in 2007 and 2008, was analyzed aiming to identify the effects of the proposed training. Drafting the narratives helped the students expand their listening capacity and their perception of the complexity of the healthdiseasecare process, in addition to other aspects of what has been called the 'common practice' in the various health professions.
health work; narrative; clinical practice; interprofessional education