The supervisor in the Professional Improvement Program (PAP): who is this learnersdeveloper? / O supervisor do Programa de Aprimoramento Profissional (PAP): quem é esse formador?

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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Introduction In-service learning models are part of the educational process available in courses directed to health professionals. The Professional Improvement Program (PAP), offered by the Health Department of São Paulo State (SES) and managed by the Administrative Development Foundation (Fundap), a São Paulo States governmental agency, since his creation in 1979, presents itself as a human resource developer for the National Health System (SUS). The program takes place in public and private institutions at São Paulo State and offers grants for recent health/medical graduates called in-developers. This in-service program has a supervisor who plans the activities to be performed throughout the course and guides the in-developers to carry out the planned activities. Objective To characterize the Professional Improvement Program s supervisors and understand their professional development, the influence and the meaning of this activity in their professional career. Methodology Study population consists of the certified supervisors in the PAP in 2006 through the Accreditation and Re-accreditation of programs offered by the Health Department of São Paulo State and by the Administrative Development Foundation (Fundap). Data for the characterization was requested from SES and Fundap about the supervisors information in the data bank of the Accreditation 2006. For data regarding supervision performance and the issue about updating the supervisor in the training process, a form with open questions was sent by email to them. The answers were treated using the approach centered in content analysis by BARDIN (1977). Results: The results obtained with the study revealed that PAP supervisors has the following profile: women majority, concentrated in age group between 41 and 50 years old, graduated in different health areas, mainly in medicine and nursery, with academy title highly qualified, with doctor and master degree, been some of them improvement themselves, acting in function more than 15 years. In relation to answer results to open questions, were created four categories of analyses, to mention: 1 Arrival ways to supervisor. 2 Acting supervision what happens to professional, 3 Restraints and difficults in doing supervision e 4 Building educator role in doing supervision.

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in-service training formação de recursos humanos treinamento em serviço supervisão formação em saúde public health training in health supervision human resource development saúde pública

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