Formação profissional em serviço social para atuação no Sistema Único de Saúde: uma análise do curso de serviço social da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Abstract

This reasearch is part of the Academic Course Completion Work (TCC), which based on participation in the PET-Saúde GraduaSUS and internship at the Public Health System (SUS), built a research entitled "Challenges in Training in Social Work to Acting in the Single System of Health ", aiming to analyze how Social Service course of Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) is training professionals to act in the public health policy, viewing to strengthening SUS. For this purpose, a qualitative study was carried out on health education in the UFSM Social Service course through structured questionnaires, via google docs, with the graduates of the first and second graduates of the UFSM Social Service course . From total of 52 graduated in 2015 and 2016, 27 graduates answered the questionnaire, thus constituting the sample of the research. In this sense, the socio-occupational insertion of social workers from UFSM was verified; it was identified the theoretical-practical perceptions of the graduates regarding the training to act in the public health policy and, finally, the weaknesses and potentialities in the formation in Social Service of the UFSM to act in the SUS were recognized. In view of this, it outlines an overview of health education in the UFSM Social Service course, pointing out strategies to qualify the health training of future social workers, specifically in the reorganization of the curriculum including new disciplines that discuss health, as well as articulating teaching, research and extension in training.