ABP workshop

The teachers of the Physiotherapy course participated, last Saturday (16), in the Academic Unit Brotas, from the last day of the workshop to deepen the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method, an initiative that integrates the actions of the Institutional Program for Teacher Development (PROIDD). The first meeting took place on March 2nd. The workshop was given by the professors of the Nursing course, Cláudia Santana and Jorge Clarêncio Souza de Andrade. Before the event, the professors attended the presentation of the Institutional Development Program, given by the manager of the Human Resources Department, Telma Bastos.

“In these meetings, we worked a lot on the role of the tutor in the ABP method, the method of building cases and solving problems. It is an active methodology work, in which the problem is created by the teacher with the objective of reaching certain pre-established contents in the curricular component”, explains Prof. Cláudia Santana.

According to the coordinator of the Physiotherapy course, Prof. Roseny Ferreira, the realization of this workshop came from a request made by the teachers themselves. "First, a workshop was held for all teachers at the Bahiana, during the Pedagogical Forum. So, professor Ana Lúcia Barbosa Góes, had participated in this first moment and suggested that we organize this meeting for all the professors of the course”.

After participating in the first day of the workshop, Professor Everton Carvalho has already felt the difference. “After I started working with the ABP, I saw that I managed to go much deeper into the contents with the students. When we speak, we are forced to participate, we become more active. Now that I've done the workshop, even in matters that aren't ABP, I follow the methodology. It changed my way of teaching a lot”.

For the curricular internship teacher, João Amaro Coelho Neto, students arrive at the clinic better prepared than before. “Before, the students arrived and wanted us to give the answers. They waited for the teacher's answer. Today they seek more, seek more, their reasoning is much more used. They ask more, but manage to understand more. Despite having more discussions, we have less work in making the student understand the subject”. Prof. João says that he had already had experience with the method, when he studied Physiotherapy in the Netherlands. “We had to be in constant study. If we were at home, we were thinking about the patient, always analyzing everything”, he says.