This article aims to examine issues of collective management of teaching activities in the course of medicine of a federal institution of undergraduation, evidenced by the external evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education (MEC), and The theoretical contributions were based on ergonomics and psychodynamics of work. It is a qualitative study attended by ten professors, eight men and two women, out of one hundred and forty-nine professors in Medicine. The criterion for the composition of the research group was the participation in the evaluation process of the medical school. This study followed the ethical requirements relevant to research involving human beings, and its methodological strategy combined nondirective interviews, recorded with the permission of the interviewees, with the documentary analysis of evaluation reports. The results pointed to a professional engagement that stays behind others in research and extension activities, and a work organization that hinders the consolidation of collectives and the maintenance of cooperative ties between teachers, key aspects of the issue of quality and productivity, with health and safety at work.
Teacher work; Medical education; Higher education; Human factors engineering; Psychodynamics of work