Sistema Regional de Información
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This is a reflection on the process of developing the curriculum for the Professional Master's Degree in Family Health course offered by Northeast Training in Family Health Network. Professors from federal and state educational and research institutions participated in this process. The construction of the curriculum, that took two years to be completed, included the creation of the Curriculum Development Group, which was put in charge of designing the course and training its professors. The steps of this process were discussed with reference to the educational bases that guided the curriculum design, with emphasis on training health professionals in the professional master's degree mode. It is hoped that the dissemination of this innovative experience within the scope of stricto sensu training will contribute to other experiences not only being designed and implemented, but also disclosed.

A qualitative study with Family Health Strategy professionals to investigate their views and practices concerning domestic violence against children and adolescents. Data were collected between April and July 2014 using semi-structured interviews carried out at Integrated Family Health Units in João Pessoa, state of Paraíba, Brazil. The thematic analysis showed that health professionals are insecure and unprepared to deal with domestic violence against children and adolescents, a fact that causes difficulties in identifying maltreatment, making the complaint, and monitoring the victims. It highlights the importance of support from health management to protect professionals who deal with cases of violence and their training in order to facilitate the early identification and reporting of cases and effective monitoring for victims and their families.

Studies focused on professional training at the graduate level to work for the National Health System are scarce in Brazil. This article aims to report on the experience of building the Professional Master's Degree in Family Health offered by the Northeastern Network of Education in Family Health. It presents the background to this proposal and discusses the theoretical and methodological design that permeated the entire process. Continuing education, significant adult learning, and education concepts are discussed in the context of the creation of the Master's Degree course. It is hoped that this experience can subsidize reflections in other training contexts, knowing that it is an ongoing process and that the issues related to the design of the course and the results attained so far are part of a larger challenge, which is the education of adults.

The Multidisciplinary Residency in Family Health is characterized as in-service training that promotes an approximation to the reality of the Unified Health System. Although empirically it is found that there are positive results in the professional activity, there is no model to value results. This article dwells on the description and analysis of the process of adapting and validating essential structures of evaluation and their respective indicators for the construction of self-assessment models for programs aimed at multidisciplinary residency in family health. During the workshop, tools were presented to experts who were asked to make considerations about them. Their observations were analyzed and those considered relevant to the evaluation objectives accepted. The construction and validation of self-evaluation indicators for Multidisciplinary Residency in Family Health programs that were conducted signal the relevance of a proposal that goes beyond the ‘traditional’ ratings and becomes a process that is as inventive as desired for the residencies.

Domingos Sávio do Nascimento Alves is a neurologist and sanitarian, specialized in Social Psychiatry through the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/Fiocruz). Since the 1980s, as a physician, and twice as a director of the Juliano Moreira Colony, and during the 1990s, as the coordinator of the Ministry of Health's Mental Health Technical Area, he has been one of the main actors in the Psychiatric Reformation process in Brazil. From the 1990s, in addition to serving as an occasional consultant for the Ministry of Health, he also served as one of the directors and as the last chairman of the Franco Basaglia Institute, a Rio de Janeiro non-governmental organization that advocated the rights of people with mental disorders. In this interview,1 Domingos addresses the current, conflicting situation of the Minister of Health's appointment2 of an undeniable critic of the reformation, and makes a brief analysis of the progress that has been made and of the challenges of this process.

This paper aims to contribute with analytical reflections on awareness and alienation in the context of the Brazilian psychiatric reform movement, pointing out the peculiarities of this process in a capitalist society. It seeks to present initial elements that problematize the political and social direction that is being built and consolidated by the psychiatric reform movement, which does not rely on transforming societal order and, as such, is limited to attaining political emancipation. It starts with the hypothesis that it is essential to locate the importance and contribution of the dialectical historical materialism in analyzing not only the context, but to guide it in everyday actions and in the search for critical awareness in order to build a new social order.