Physiotherapy. teaching. College education. Professional Master's. Teaching in Health.

Introduction: The evolution of scientific knowledge associated with the new demands of health work demonstrates the indispensability of investments in training highly qualified professionals who are increasingly committed to comprehensive care, advocated by the Unified Health System. The CNE/CES Resolution n° 4, which establishes the DCN/FISIO, recommends that the physical therapist should be prepared to know methods and techniques of investigation and elaboration of academic and scientific works. This need for training professionals in the field of teaching and research emphasizes the importance of a stricto sensu postgraduate course in health, such as a professional master's degree. The knowledge about the scientific production in the area of physiotherapy teaching carried out in the Postgraduate Program in Health Teaching of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Alagoas, helps to understand the challenges of scientific production in the area, the current identity of the courses and to guide the definition of future policies for the sector. Objectives: to verify the adequacy of the scientific production of graduates in physiotherapy from MPES to the competences guided by the DCN of physiotherapy and to the epistemological foundations specific to MP, and the personal and institutional effects of derived products. Methodological approach: case study, descriptive, associating the method of direct document analysis and with Iramuteq of academic works of conclusion of the course of physical therapists graduated from MPES to the interview method with the use of a semi-structured questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of open and closed questions that respectively helped to understand the objectives of the research and to compose the profile of the graduates. Twelve final papers were analyzed and eleven graduates were interviewed. Results: most of the works contemplated the pre-defined AC and UR, therefore, there is a direct relationship between the articles, respective products and the purpose foreseen in the DCN/FISIO of formation guided by the principles of SUS, as well as the epistemological foundations of the Professional PG MP. However, 75% of the TACC showed weaknesses in the implementation of their products, mainly due to difficulties in supporting the HEIs in policy strategies and administrative commitment. The institutional and personal effects generated after the implementation of the products generated two categories: 1- awareness of professionals and students, with the subcategories: humanization in health, interprofessional education and skills of the physiotherapist and 2- communication between managers and students of the physiotherapy course . All 11 professors reported personal benefits from the MP related to professional qualification for work in teaching and/or services. Final considerations: despite the difficulties in implementing the products reveal institutional challenges that require a better preparation of encouraging policies capable of adapting curricula for teamwork, the research of graduate physiotherapists created permanent benefits in some HEIs, such as an influence on the improvement of curriculum matrices and strategies to strengthen the integrated internship of several health courses. These reports reflect the importance of qualification for work through professional PG of the MP type in health education.