This article contains a report on facing violence, which constitutes a major health care problem for the population that is within the sphere of action of the UNI-Ba Project for the Barra Sanitation District in Rio Vermelho. This issue has become fundamental as an element of the thinking involved in the development of healthcare practices as part of the process of professional training. The text debates the need for professional education to be socially contextualized, so as to provide professionals with the tools they require to face problems and the population's true health care requirements. It also comments on the strategies used to ensure a close interconnection of the world of teaching and the world of work - the reality - taking the latter as an element of fundamental importance, if active methods capable of providing a positive contribution to the development of socially committed individuals are to be adopted in the processes of teaching and learning.
violence; teaching-learning process
