O ensino médico é extremamente importante na determinação da qualidade técnica dos futuros profissionais. Embora o Brasil apresente legislação específica sobre o tema, observamos discrepâncias no processo de aprendizado, o que, muitas vezes, compromete a formação dos futuros médicos. Além disso, métodos de ensino tradicionais, baseados fundamentalmente no diagnóstico de problemas, são ainda praticados em várias faculdades. Estes métodos relegam preceitos educacionais e, muitas vezes, colocam os estudantes em papel secundário. Nessa perspectiva, apresentamos um promissor método de ensino médico chamado Preceptoria em um Minuto (One-Minute Preceptor), salientando seu papel voltado ao profissional em formação. Destacamos também a importância deste método por permitir o ensino em tempo relativamente limitado, frente à crescente demanda por atendimentos

Medical teaching is extremely important for determining the quality of future professionals. Although Brazil has specific legislation on the subject, discrepancies have been observed in the learning process, often jeopardizing the training of future physicians. Furthermore, traditional teaching methods, based mainly on the diagnosis of problems, are still practiced in various medical schools. These methods ignore fundamental rules of education and relegate students to a secondary role. From this perspective, we present a promising method for medical education called the One-Minute Preceptor, emphasizing its role for in-training medical professionals. We also emphasize its importance for teaching in a time-limited scenario, due to the growing demand for care

Descrevem-se as estratégias empregadas para implementar uma linha de pesquisa em Educação e Saúde nos nove programas de pós-graduação já consolidados na Faculdade de Medicina da UFRGS. A linha está centrada na organização do trabalho pedagógico nos processos de ensinar e de aprender e capacitar docentes para atender às necessidades de formação multiprofissional. A curto prazo, objetiva atender às necessidades das Diretrizes Curriculares no curso de graduação em Medicina; a médio prazo, à titulação e qualificação do corpo docente nestes campos temáticos; a longo prazo, à implementação de um programa de pós-graduação em Educação e Saúde, em nível de mestrado e doutorado. A primeira turma ingressou em agosto de 2004 (seis alunos de mestrado e seis de doutorado), e seus estudos vêm sendo realizados, tanto na teoria como na prática, com base na análise de experiências em Educação e Saúde.

The authors describe the strategies used for establishing a research line in Education and Health in addition to the nine master's and doctorate programs already existing in the Medical School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The research line is centered on organizing the pedagogical activity as refers to the teaching and learning processes as well as on qualifying teachers for meeting the demands of multi-professional education. The Project aims at meeting, in the short run, the need for Curricular Guidelines in the undergraduate medical course; in the middle run at qualifying the teaching body for these subjects; and in the long run, at implementing a Graduate Program in Health and Education on master and PhD levels. The first group of students was selected in August 2004 and their studies are being conducted, both theoretically and practically, based on the analysis of experiences on Education and Health.

OBJECTIVE: To report a training program in cardiology emphasizing changes in its pedagogical practice. These changes were put into practice by some teachers at the Medical School of Porto Alegre of the University of Rio Grande do Sul (FAMED/UFRGS) aiming to make faculty and student activities more dynamic and to promote more efficacious learning. The training program is directed at 5th semester medical students and aims at a behavioral change in teachers and students to promote more interaction, to favor exchanges, and to make the teaching-learning process easier, always maintaining the patient in the center of the medical activity. METHODS: The program emphasizes the definition of general and specific objectives for each activity to be developed by the students, with training in the area of admission to the cardiology service, with special emphasis on behavioral change in the cognitive, motor, affective, and attitudinal areas. Knowledge was developed by means of interactive seminars with initial and final assessment tests to identify students' and teachers' performance. The students were evaluated in an immediate, continuous, and progressive way in their daily activities and through comparison of the results of 2 tests, one applied at the beginning of the training and the other at its end. These 2 tests contained the same questions. RESULTS: We systematically assessed 560 students over 4 years. The mean grades of the tests performed prior to and after the 244 seminars were 7.38±1.66 and 9.17± 0.82, respectively (p<0.0001). For the tests applied at the beginning and at the end of the training, the mean grades were 5.61±1.61 and 9.37±0.90, respectively (p<0.0001). CONCLUSION: The program proved to be efficient both for the students' learning and for assessing their performance in a systematic and objective way.