MULTI-PROFESSIONAL RESIDENCY AS AN INTERCESSOR FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION IN HEALTH

The objective in this study is to understand how Continuing Education in Health is developed in the everyday life of professionals in a multi-professional residency program in health at a teaching hospital in the South of Brazil. Qualitative research with a case study design, involving 16 professionals. The results show that the multi-professional residency program establishes collective spaces, as it permits encounters among subject who develop their actions based on pedagogical training and guided by continuing education. It is concluded that the participants in the residency program can think about other ways of producing health, encouraging the search for transformations of the operating practices to produce new actions in health. DESCRIPTORS: Education, continuing. Internship and residency. Professional practice. Nursing. Case studies.