O modelo de role-play para a avaliação em português para fins específicos do projeto mais médicos para o brasil

Abstract

Associated with the More Doctors Program (Programa Mais Médicos – PMM), the More Doctors for Brazil Project (Programa Mais Médicos para o Brasil – PMMB) was established in 2013 primarily to provide with physicians units of the Unified Health System located in underprivileged areas of Brazil that lacked these professionals. In the early years of the project, most vacancies were occupied by foreigners – which led to the need for courses and assessments of Portuguese as an additional language for specific purposes. Considering the importance of tracing the history of the language policies actions undertaken within the context of PMMB, this article focuses on the main assessment instrument adopted in the first four editions of the “Welcoming and Assessment Module” (Módulo de Acolhimento e Avaliação – MAAv) of this project: a performance exam in Portuguese in role-play model based on a healthcare simulation in primary care. After a brief historical record of PMM and MAAv, we describe the structure and characteristics of the test, presenting examples of actual exams and evaluation grids. Thereafter, the main challenges involved in the conception, application and assessment of the exam were discussed, considering the inversely proportional relationship between validity, on the one hand, and reliability and practicality, on the other.