V Café Científico fills the auditorium of Cabula

The auditorium of the Convention Center of the Bahiana, at the Cabula Academic Unit, was full on the morning of last Wednesday, June 1st, when the Nursing and Biomedicine courses held the V Scientific Coffee which this year brought the theme "Race Relations, Drug Use, Gender and Sexuality" to be debated with high school students from Colégio Estadual Governador Roberto Santos.

Among the novelties this year, the event had the participation of academic leagues, as well as students from the 1st and 2nd semesters of Biomedicine and Nursing courses, who organized the program. The opening was attended by the coordinators of the Nursing courses, Cristiane Magali Freitas dos Santos, Psychology, Sylvia Barreto, Biomedicine, Geraldo Argolo, Dentistry, Urbino Tunes and Physiotherapy, Luciana Bilitário.

The Café Científico is the result of the work of the disciplines Ethics and Bioethics and Psychology in Health, taught by professors Arlene Alves and Lidiane Guedes, who coordinated the event together with professor Sandra Portella. "These are disciplines that work a lot with the issues of humanization and human care and the Unified Health System, policies. When we realize that we can use certain debates and strategies in our speeches, certain documentaries, videos and, above all, something that we do a lot in the classroom, which is to open the day with the main tabloids in our country, so it's the tabloids that help to build the themes of coffee", explains Portella, who says that, at a certain time of the semester, the two disciplines work together, bringing together a total of 80 students. After defining the theme and with the guidance of the teachers, the students hold interdisciplinary meetings, in which the event's format, language and methodology are defined. She points out that scientific coffee never has the same format.

The coordinator of the Nursing course, Prof. Cristiane Magali Freitas dos Santos, explains that the idea of ​​Café Científico is precisely to promote dialogue between courses and interdisciplinarity. "The idea, the strategy, started only between the components and these professors, so this culmination represented one of the evaluation items at the end of each semester and, from the third Café Científico, the project took on a proportion of this interdisciplinarity, it grew , was thinking more and more creatively, incorporating the need to discuss themes that are transversal and that permeate the training of academics, not only in this technical analysis of knowledge, but also in reflective, citizen training".

She also highlights the growth of the event and its importance as a space for reflection on the ethical and humanistic training of health professionals. "The leagues are also, for the first time, participating in the coffee and this is our desire, that it becomes more pervasive and this penetration occurs in different training scenarios such as research groups, extension projects, academic leagues , in the stages. This, each year, is incorporated in a way, but always thought of as a collective construction".

And that's exactly what happened to Raissa Alves, a Psychology student and member of the Academic League of Sexuality and Gender (LASG) and Amanda Nassif, of the Women's Health League (LASM) and a Physiotherapy student. "I could see the issue of sexuality and gender that needs to be worked on in connection with the Psychology staff. We have this demand in our service and we need to discuss this issue, make this connection with other leagues and better understand the social part of gender. We deal a lot with the book, that thing in plaster and the Bahiana it was crucial, because I felt she opened a door. We are already arranging with the girls from LASG for us to make a section together to supply, because they also need to sometimes see a patient and advise if he reports that he has a sexual dysfunction that, perhaps, physiotherapy can help ", reported Amanda.

Realizing the absence of a space for discussion about gender and sexuality in the academy, Raissa Alves explains that it was necessary to build an environment for reflection on the topic. "I was one of the people who thought about the league project because of the presidential debate in which we saw people who were running to represent us saying absurd things on television. And then, when we see the repercussion of this in the media or in the form of mockery or even people agreeing with him, this is very worrying and when we realize that within the academy we do not have a space dedicated to this type of discussion, it is even more worrying. Sexuality and Gender", she says.

Like LASM, LASG also conducts a range of outreach activities, bringing the discussion of gender and sexuality to schools, events and science sessions. "I found the coffee proposal, from the beginning, very interesting, as there are several mixed audiences and this only enriches our discussion, there are several perspectives, several places of speeches and life stories being shared. And when teacher Lidiane spoke of taking high school students, I said: – That's cool! Because we're barely managing to take this topic to higher education," says Raissa.

The Café Científico had the intense participation of students from Colégio Estadual Governador Roberto Santos, among them, the 3rd year student and MC, Musa Mariano, 15, who ended the first part of the meeting by reciting one of his compositions. In her life story, she emphasizes the importance of RAP as fundamental to her student success, since, being focused on her artistic career, she is no longer in the zone of social vulnerability. "RAP helped a lot in my trajectory as a student, because I learned things in RAP that I don't teach at school, like life, that we don't learn much at school, when we go out into the streets, for battles - composition challenge events musical - we heard experienced voices, older people, because my whole concept base was created by RAP, it saved my life, occupies my free time so I can be using drugs, be at parties, so occupying myself, and ended up transforming my life". The artist's work can be seen on YouTube and iCloud – MUSA MARIANO.

"This event adds up something, I found it very interesting that the feminist power was here, it opened my mind more, because in the past you didn't see so much talk about feminism in a lecture. the victim is always seen as guilty and up until the exact moment I was blaming the rape victim, but after a broad view that I had here in the lecture I will end up changing my opinion. Regardless of what she did, the woman doesn't have right to suffer any type of aggression, not even verbal or mental," says Mariano.

The interaction between academics, teachers and high school students was what sensitized student João Ricardo Filho, 1st semester of Biomedicine and one of the organizers of the event. "It's all within what we imagined and this work has been amazing precisely because we can see that the interaction is happening, people, students, students are feeling the need to expose their ideas through what is being presented and this is the most rewarding thing for us, to see that the work is not unilateral, it is something mutual that happens with the contribution and presence of everyone. So, to see that people understand this and are feeling at ease to expose your ideas, it's wonderful"! Celebrate John.

About his personal learning, he highlights that the humanistic character is fundamental to his profession. "Regarding Biomedicine, we need to understand that it's an area where we don't have direct contact with the patient, so it's an area where we stay a little more reclusive in laboratories and we need to stimulate this sensitive ear, stimulate the reception so that we do not lose this over time, so that we do not get used to just laboratory customs in which we deal with microscopic structures and forget about macros, forget about the interaction between people, so this is extremely important".

The program also included the participation of the Academic Leagues of Harm Reduction, Nursing and Emergency and Racial Relations, presentation of works by Biomedicine and Nursing students and poetic interventions by the poet and cordelist, Alberto Lima.

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