Interprofessional collaboration: a case study between managers, teachers and family health professionals

The present case study uses a qualitative exploratory approach to analyze the collaboration between managers and teachers from three Higher Education Institutions (HEI) - Private Institutions that adopt the Family Health Strategy (FHS) as their curricular training ground for their students, managers and professionals from the FHS teams in Juazeiro do Norte-CE. The theoretical framework that guided the research design and the subsequent analysis of the body of data was a typology of interprofessional collaboration. Data was collected during 2011 and 2012, using the following techniques: field diary, document review and 25 open interviews with managers and teachers of HEI, managers and health professionals of the Municipal Secretary for Health. The interprofessional collaboration between FHS professionals and teachers of the three HEI analyzed was found incipient, showing the need of the promotion of knowledge and practice in this field.