Implementation of a Mental Health internship in a higher education institution

• Main Authors: Felipe Pinheiro de Figueiredo (Author), Marcelo Picinin Bernuci (Author), Raquel Gusmão de Oliveira (Author), Nilce Marzolla Ideriha (Author), Ely Mitie Massuda (Author), Mirian Ueda Yamaguchi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp), 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 1807-5762; 10.1590/interface.170898
• Keywords: Mental health; Medical education; Public health policy.; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, Vol 23, Iss suppl 1 (2019)

ABSTRACT The approval of the More Doctors Program has triggered a number of readjustments of the National Curricular Guidelines (DCNs) for Medical Education, like the creation of a mental health internship integrated into the health service and community. Due to this demand, the higher education institutions have been encouraged to innovate in their teaching-learning methodologies in order to guarantee a generalist, humanistic and critical professional education. We report the experience of a private higher education institution in the implementation of a mental health internship in consonance with the new DCNs. We present all the steps of the implementation, reporting the participation of students, supervisors, preceptors and managers. We show that a mental health internship linked to different levels of healthcare promotes learning conditions capable of favoring the decentralization of care and application of the community/family approach.