TEACHING IN HEALTH: INTENTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL MASTER’S DEGREES FOR TRAINING AND INTERPROFESSIONAL WORK

Abstract the descriptive study of documentary analysis aimed to analyze the intentions of professional master’s degrees in health education in the CAPES teaching area for training and interprofessional work in the Brazilian context. The research involved 20 CAPES Collection reports from professional master’s programs in the teaching area of the five geographic regions of Brazil referring to the 2017–2020 Quadrennial Assessment. The qualitative analysis of the reports was carried out by tracking terms related to the object of study and analyzing the content of the documents. The reports express the peculiar characteristics of the programs and the intentions for professional training, the development of research and educational products with objects that emerge from daily work, directed to the Brazilian healthcare system principles and guidelines; they recognize the importance of problem-solving, critical and reflective training; and they use different active and interactive methodologies with the potential to strengthen integrated work among different professional categories. The reports present intentions for training and collaborative work, although there is a need for programs to explain the strategies used to develop teamwork and interprofessional collaboration.