Caminhos e possibilidades para a avaliação das ações de Educação Permanente em Saúde (EPS): a experiência de um curso de especialização.

Abstract

The existing difficulties in the work process in Health require Education actions Permanent Health Services (EPS) that respond to development needs skills to improve work processes. However, the major investment in educational actions brings with it the need to analyze the effects produced and the contribution of the EPS to changes in the professional profile, in professional practices or if it was capable, albeit indirectly, of impacting institutional and health indicators. It is important that evaluation processes are developed as part of the educational action. This one the study aims to: Evaluate an EPS action, in the form of a Training Course Specialization, through the methodological strategy based on levels and impact (in breadth and depth). It is characterized as a case study, of a qualitative and quantitative nature. Having as participants the 31 graduates of the Specialization Course in Health Public (CESP) – 1st group, developed by the Public Health School of Bahia. At construction of the questionnaires, considering the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (CHAs) related to the course objectives presented in the Pedagogical Project. You results showed the contribution of the course to the exercise of functions in management, in the planning of actions, in the coordination of processes and services and in the implementation of projects, as well as qualitative performance of attitudinal aspects; about the support organizational, psychosocial and material aspects indicated the perception of little support, evidencing the need for the development of organizational support strategies, with a view to fostering higher levels of course effects as intervention projects were not implemented. It is concluded that the course contributed to a change in behavior in the position and also identified specific effects related to the elaboration of technical products such as protocols, operational and manual procedures, assistance flows in the services, in addition to the production of the knowledge, such as experience reports and socialization of learning in meetings team techniques.