ASPECTS OF PRCEPTORY THAT INTERFERE QUALITY OF TEACHING IN OBSTETRICS IN A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Preceptorship. Obstetrics. Internship.
Obstetrics is a Medicine field that studies reproductive phenomena in women relating to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. Governmental health formation strategies established an approximation between health schools and health services to make the professional in this area, in its condition as a preceptor, turn into a protagonist in the formative process. This work contains a paper, elaborated through the research titled “Aspects of preceptorship that interfere in Obstetric Teaching Quality in a University Hospital” developed at the health teaching professional master’s degree. The research had as its general goal to to investigate aspects that may interfere with obstetric teaching quality in a hospital school, through its preceptors in this area. A qualitative approach descriptive study realized at the maternity of a hospital school, where 10 obstetric doctors who also act as preceptors at maternity were interviewed. Data was analyzed with Iramuteq software to make 4 categories: preceptorship activities; being a preceptor; hospital as a workplace; and teaching and communication with a Medicine School - preceptor. The analysis also occurred through Bardin’s content analysis. Results evidenced dissatisfaction with the preceptor’s valorization at the service, and failure in a specific training on preceptorship, revealing a lapse of formation and domain of educational aspects involved in this practice. It also points to obstacles in academia and doctors of the service relationship, showing fragile interaction and relation teaching-services, as well as dissatisfaction with the lack of planning of preceptorship, work overload, and lack of updated protocols at the service. We elaborate as an educational product two assistance protocols that objective to unify obstetrics conducts at this maternity, improving teaching-learning processes and assistance to the community.