A avaliação na Educação Permanente em Saúde

Abstract

The focus of continuing education is a major change in the design and the practical training of health workers, integrating teaching learning daily life of institutions, through a problembased teaching and meaningful learning. Learning is the act of building critical awareness of reality and has the evaluative practice as a tool facilitating this process. From this premise, the aim of this study was to identify the evaluation processes used in Continuing Education in Health. This is a literature survey in the databases of the Virtual Health Library and explained through a narrative review of the literature. Seven articles that address different evaluationprocesses, demonstrating the positive effects of continuing education performance and professional satisfaction and health outcomes were analyzed. There was a predominance of regulatory reviews, the implementation of evaluative research, conducted with methodological rigor, to verify the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of the program onhealth practices is necessary.