HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN CONTEMPORANEITY

Abstract

The paper presents the structural and theoretical overview the Pedagogic Political Project of the Psychology Course of Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health). It has as reference document the National Curriculum for education in Psychology published by the Ministry of Education in 2004. It proposes as instructional design the replacement of curricular organization mustered in disciplines for building a curriculum based on competencies and professional skills. Understands as foundational principle the curriculum grounded in interdisciplinarity, focused on the development of competence. Focuses on the subject of learning as central actor of the educational process; considers and signals the expansion of the professional field of the psychologist in new contexts, as in the social, legal and sports, consolidating the profession as a broad area of social responsibility. Considers that, in contemporary times, the psychologist reveals itself as a health professional. Thus, the learning process is challenged to depart from the traditional model of biomedical teaching and to prepare professionals to deal with health as a complex phenomenon, multi-referentialized, that involves socio-cultural, historical and subjective aspects.