EXPERIENCE OF MEDICINE ACADEMICS IN HEALTH EDUCATION WITH HIGH-RISK PREGNANT WOMEN

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1592522209094

• Palavras-chave: university extension; pregnant; health promotion; experience report

• Keywords: university extension; pregnant; health promotion; experience report

• Abstract:

  The University, through university extension, aims to contribute to the comprehensive technical-scientific and humanist training of students, and at the same time to the social development of the external community. 

  Goal: To report the experience of medical students participating in a university extension project.

  Methodology: This descriptive study reports the experience of medical students in the extension project “Health promotion for pregnant women who undergo prenatal care at the University Hospital Lauro Wanderley (HULW)”, in the city of João Pessoa/PB/Brazil. It is part of an extension program - PROBEX - at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). It is a multidisciplinary project involving professors and university students from different areas of health. The project's actions consist of promoting horizontal dialogue between extension workers and the target audience, taking place in prenatal clinics while pregnant women wait for medical care. The topics covered aim to collaborate with the prevention of diseases and the reduction of injuries, in a way that improves the quality of life of the public and that the exchange of knowledge takes place.

  Results: This hospital is a reference in the care of pregnant women with high-risk pregnancies, it is a needy and vulnerable population. The student's proximity to other realities favors his humanist and critical training, leading him to reflect on the other, an important condition for the development of respect, ethics and empathy, fundamental principles for any and all citizen and professional training. As the understanding of pregnant women is worked on, the woman becomes empowered, a multiplier of knowledge, culminating in favoring the quality of life of the future baby, her family and community surroundings.

   

  Conclusion: The participation in this extension action brought to us, academics of the medicine course, a technical-scientific and humanistic growth, reinforced the teaching-learning binomial when we were inserted in the heart of the community, experiencing its realities and exercising the art of speaking and listening. We believe that significant benefits were generated in the group of participating women based on their receptivity and acceptance of the project. Health promotion actions must be a constant among educational institutions and health teams.

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