The day-to-day life of Family and Community Medicine: What it was like to be a resident in "Covidian" times

Abstract

Introduction: Family and Community Medicine (MFC) has been growing exponentially in the world, especially in countries with universal health systems, such as England and Canada, in Latin America, Europe and in the Arab Emirates, MFC has been showing good results in overcoming the biomedical model and focusing on primary health care to overcome health inequalities. However, the daily practice in SUS is challenging with many complex problem situations involving several subspecialties, and how to handle with hard technologies, with little therapeutic arsenal available, especially in large cities with low ESF coverage such as Salvador. Objective: To analyze, from the perspective of the experience report, how was the path of medical residency after the COVID-19 pandemic19. Methodology: Description of an experience report from the perspective of Mynayo's qualitative analysis, focusing on the potential and challenges of the resident's role in primary health care. Results: The experience report reveals the daily life in primary health care and raises questions such as the medical residency being conducted and the role of MFC in the front line of the pandemic. Conclusions: Medical residency is a time of challenge and in-service learning with the new coronavirus pandemic, bringing the biggest public health crisis of the century. The reality has changed, and the many hours inside the COVID-19 room have changed the learning landscape and brought repercussions for training in family health.