V Physiotherapy Research Journey is promoted at Bahiana

On May 16, the Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública promoted the V Physiotherapy Research Journey, an annual event that brings together students, professors and researchers in the field of physiotherapy with the aim of updating participants on topics related to health research and integrating undergraduate and graduate degrees, encouraging participation in groups of Research certified by CNPq – National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

The program included a lecture by the professor of the Physiotherapy course at Bahiana, Dr. Patrícia Lôrdelo, about the Pelvic Floor Care Center (CAAP), which also participated, together with professors Abrahão Baptista, Adriana Campos and Cristiane Dias, in the roundtable “What is the place of research in the training of physical therapists?”

The day of activities also included a lecture on the importance of postgraduate programs in Physiotherapy, given by Dr. Kátia Nunes Sá, a presentation on the Research Methodology Teaching Center (NEMP), presented by Prof. Me. Marcus Santana and workshops on Mendeley, Introduction to Biostatistics, Good Research Practices, among others.

The coordinator of the Physiotherapy course at Bahiana, professor Luciana Bilitário, explains that this year the central theme of the journey was research. “The idea was to discuss everything in the research, it is not a technical, professional journey. This year the objective was to cover applied research for the clinic, thinking of research not only for those who will do Master's and Doctorate degrees, but for those who will work in clinics and hospitals, thus motivating learning in research, in the thinking of a researcher in investigating the which should be used, new techniques that emerge and approach”. The teacher says that this year the journey mobilized many people, with 33 works approved for oral presentation with free themes, in addition to having the participation of 100% of teachers and around 100 students enrolled.

The doctor in Medicine and Public Health and coordinator of the TCC of the Physiotherapy course at Bahiana, Dr. Cristiane Dias, explains the importance of the event, which is linked to the course conclusion work. “Various research groups are present on the journey. It is an opportunity for the student to present their research, together with the interaction of professors, and the most interesting thing about this process is that we have students from the 5th semester already presenting their course conclusion work that will be defended in the 8th semester ”, he reports.

Professor Adriana Campos reports that the journey is a very constructive initiative for the process of educating students. “This journey is a fantastic initiative, as our profession is young and certainly needs a lot of research to establish itself as an “accredited profession”. ”. Encouraging students to understand what research is and its context for their training is fundamental”.

Dr. Patrícia Lôrdelo, adjunct professor of the master's and doctorate at Bahiana, emphasizes that the journey is an achievement for the course of Bahiana. “The Physiotherapy Journey is an achievement for our course, which is recognized precisely for the research issue and this only confirms and gratifies this recognition”. In presenting the Pelvic Floor Care Center (CAAP), she emphasized the participation of teaching, research and care and addressed the role of the physiotherapist in clinical research, "focusing on clinical trials, since we are interventionists and we need to pursue this approach appropriate evidence-based therapy”, he concludes.

The event sought to integrate the students of the Physiotherapy course with market perspectives in research and notions of the clinical market.

Marina Lemos Carvalho, a student in the 7th semester of the Physiotherapy course, points out that the journey is very constructive for her training and that she even got an approved project and was awarded a grant from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia) ( FAPESB). The work was related to the Ministry of Health's program "Stopping Smoking Without Mysteries", carried out at the Brotas da Bahiana encouraging smoking cessation.

“I have presented here the preliminary results of my article on CBT and the theme of my work was “Lifestyle in Levels of Nicotine Dependence in Smokers”. The journey is a very enriching opportunity, we ended up hearing opinions from our professors and specialists in the area and this, really, is very enriching and motivating for our work”. 

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