Abstract

The purpose of this article was to discuss the interrelations between the reports from the National Health Conferences and the proposals submitted in official Unified Health System documents regarding human resource training and development, seeking to relate them to the incorporation of new pedagogical frameworks guided by active teaching-learning methods. The study presented here was exploratory, referring to research done on the literature in the areas of health and education for the period ranging from 1941 – when the 1st National Health Conference was held – to 2007, when decree No. 1996 GM/MS. This decree was enacted setting new guidelines and strategies for the implementation of the National Policy of Continuing Education in Health, in order to highlight the importance of training human resources to consolidate the Unified Health System. It was found that there is a correlation between the claims emerging from the social needs identified in the construction of the Unified Health System and the proposals contained in the relevant legislation. It is worthy of note that the success of continuing education projects depends on the deep intertwining between educational processes and ins-titutional intervention that address the complexity of the ways of doing health.

Keywords
training of human resources in health; active methodologies; continuing education in health