RESUMO O processo de formação dos profissionais da saúde constitui um desafio a gestores e educadores devido à complexidade de estimular ao mesmo tempo habilidades profissionais, interpessoais e humanísticas do aluno. Os programas de Residências Multiprofissionais em Saúde (RMS) apresentam caráter de vanguarda em nosso país ao incentivarem práticas multiprofissionais ativas e participativas na atenção em saúde. Neste estudo, investigamos os níveis de estresse e qualidade de vida dos acadêmicos durante os dois anos em que se encontravam em uma RMS. O cenário de prática envolveu assistência de alta complexidade a pacientes críticos. Durante os dois anos, constatamos aumento no nível de estresse dos acadêmicos, intimamente relacionado à queda na qualidade de vida. Diversos fatores físicos e psíquicos estão vinculados aos resultados, que devem gerar discussões nos núcleos docentes estruturantes de cada residência na proposição de medidas acolhedoras aos alunos.

ABSTRACT The training process for health professionals constitutes a challenge for managers and educators since the procedures for stimulating professional, interpersonal, and human skills stand on a complex basis. Multi-professional Residence Programs (MRP) are somewhat cutting-edge in Brazil, based on the fact that they encourage active and participative multidisciplinary practices in health care. It was in this context that this study investigated student stress and quality of life during the two years spent on an MRP, with the practical scenario involving highly complex assistance administered to critically ill patients. Over the course of the two years, we were able to identify an increase in student stress levels, strongly related to a decrease in their quality of life. Many physical and psychological factors are linked to the results, and should generate debate within the academic structuring cores of each residence on measures which may be taken to better foster student welfare.

Abstract Despite consensus regarding the interference of cognitive processes on the human balance, the impact that different sensory stimuli have on the stabilometric measures remains unclear. Here, we investigated changes in the postural balance of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in healthy controls undergoing different proprioceptive and somesthetic pitfalls. We included 17 subjects submitted to eight sensorimotor dynamics with differences in the support bases, contact surfaces, and visual clues. The measurements used to assess participants balance were as follows: position of the body in space, range of instability, area of the support base, and velocity of postural control. From a total of 56 cross-sectional analyses, 21.42% pointed out differences between groups. Longitudinal analyses showed that tasks with proprioceptive and somesthetic pitfalls similarly impact imbalance in both groups. The current results suggest that AD subjects and healthy controls had different patterns submitted to balance, but suffered similar interference when undergoing proprioceptive and somesthetic challenges.