Psychology Freshmen Knowledge about Brazil’s Public Health System

Abstract

The performance of the psychologist in Brazil’s Public Health System (SUS) makes his demand and the training sessions, being important the contact with the practice and the articulation with the theory in contact with the SUS throughout the graduation. The course sought the knowledge of freshman students from a psychology course, which are part of the practice in Primary Health Care (PHC), about SUS. This is a descriptive study of a qualitative nature carried out with 16 first-year undergraduate students in a psychology degree. Data collection was performed in two stages, once a self-administered questionnaire, which had its participation in a focal study, had a number of focal responses and a number of responses. To the Content Analysis Technique. The student, with the purpose of training activists in the courses of assistance psychology, did not learn what it is about the SUS, and the opportunities to leave a life course as a continuous professional, turning to public health.