Formação e práticas educativas de professores de medicina: uma abordagem etnográfica

Abstract

This issue describes the use of the ethnographic approach of the qualitative research to investigate the teaching practices of the medicine professors. In addition of methodological procedures, explains the two phases: an exploratory phase, in which it had the access to the context and the phase of. Three data collecting instruments were used which complemented each other: an questionnaire which allowed the establishment of a professional profile of professors of medicine, a semi-structured interview with questions relating to the professor’s career experience and also, direct observation in the classroom with a registration of the teaching practices and a description of the teaching strategy. This research allows to ensure the reality and verifies that the dissatisfactions and the ideas of transformations presented by medicine teachers reflects the interest in a genuine transformation of the teaching that contemplate the formation of the physician in Brazilian society. Between the possibilities sight with this kind of research glimpses the professor as investigator of his own educational practice.