The article presents some reflections about the process to regulate the training of community health agents. It briefly describes the trajectory of the occupation, from its creation to its professionalization, as well as the changes required in the organization of the service production processes and of the health workers' training. Next, it deals with the actions developed by the Ministry of Health in order to build instruments to help the training institutions to prepare programmes for the professionalization of the community health agents. Finally, it clarifies some questions raised by those actors that are responsible for proposing forms of professional training that go beyond the current ones.
professional training; schooling; community health agent; health policies