Mapeamento da inserção da farmácia nos programas de residência multiprofissional em saúde

Abstract

Multiprofessional residency programs are characterized as an excellent strategy for the training of more qualified and active health professionals in relation to care practices in the Unified Health System (SUS). For the pharmaceutical profession, residency represents an excellent training strategy in the context of the multiprofessional team and in several practice settings. However, there was not a study that included all residency programs in Brazil, which makes it difficult for professionals to find a list of these programs, besides making it difficult to search for data, which hinders studies on residency and analysis of the training process. This is an exploratory study of descriptive character through documentary research of sources that informed the distribution and composition of the Programs. The data were collected in September 2021 using as primary source the information provided by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and from the internet search of selection edicts, as well as on the websites of the proponent institutions. A total of 2380 program registrations were identified, after exclusion of duplicate data and without sufficient information; 528 programs were identified as active and were selected for the composition analysis, of these, 312 programs (59.1%) made vacancies available for pharmacists. Regarding the distribution in Brazil, the programs are more concentrated in the Southeast and Northeast regions, and the Northeast region has the most vacancies for pharmacists. The study allowed mapping the distribution and quantity of programs that offer vacancies for pharmacists in Brazil, showing that the insertion of Pharmacy has been growing in the Residency Multiprofessional Health, revealing the obstacles, challenges, and potentialities of this space.