Representações sociais da aprendizagem autodirigida entre médicos da Estratégia Saúde da Família

Abstract

In a scenario of a great availability of information, the production of scientific knowledge in medicine has been more and more accelerated. The way the medical professional perceives and directs his acquisition of knowledge still lacks national studies, particularly in times of easily accessible internet. The guiding question of this research was: which social representations of the physicians working in the Family Health Strategy (ESF) on self-directed learning? The objective of this study was to understand the social representations of self-directed learning among physicians working in Family Health Strategy (FHS) teams. This is a descriptive, field study with transversal and quanti-qualitative approach with the theoretical methodological reference in Social Representation Theory in the structural approach. The research was carried out with FHS doctors, in the Minas Gerais municipalities of Viçosa, Ouro Preto and Mariana. At the time of the survey, these municipalities had a total of 73 doctors in the National Registry of Health Establishments (CNES). Data collection was approached in a census form, seeking to include all the professionals that fit the study proposal. Physicians enrolled in the CNES in the FHS of the study municipalities, working for at least 6 months and filled in rural and / or urban areas, were considered as inclusion criteria. Teachers or preceptors were excluded and those removed from work for any reason at the time of data collection. A semi-structured questionnaire was used by the researchers themselves. There were interviews with free evocations on the subject, which were recorded and transcribed. The quantitative analysis was performed through the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), version 23.0 for MAC. The evocations were analyzed by means of the structural approach with the four houses frame with the help of the software Ensemble de Programs Permettant l'Analyze des Evocations (EVOC®) version 2005 and analysis of similarity and implication with the aid of the software Classification Hiérarchique Classificatoire et Cohésitive - CHIC® (Version 4.1). Fifty interviews were conducted and the freely evoked words that possibly make up the core of the representations were "knowledge", "dedication", "study", "reading", "need", contrasting "research" and "book". The meaning in these expressions showed that the learner's characteristics, the practice as a place of learning as opposed to theory, associated with time barrier define the core content of social representation of participating physicians and indicate a change in the same with the advent of technology in the search for information.