The paper analyzes the conditions that interfere with the setting of the physician in the Family Health Strategy. It is a qualitative research involving documentary analysis of human resources policies practiced, application and analysis of questionnaires and focus groups to identify the physicians' perception of their work in the strategy. There was a high turnover of doctors, determined by job dissatisfaction, poor working conditions and heavy workload. Among the characteristics of the human resources local politics stood out distortions in relation to remuneration, and problems with job plans, career and wages for family doctors, which limit and penalize the professional rise. The main reasons identified in the research that promote the continuity were identification with the strategy's philosophy, professional vocation and ability to serve the community. Reflections on human resources management in the strategy and SUS as a whole were presented, pointing out some of its main weaknesses, mostly including: deficiencies in vocational training policy for the specialty, insufficient regulation of the medical profession in Brazil by the State, and excessive political interference in the provision of public health services, particularly in this strategy.
Family Health Strategy; family and community medicine; human resources in health; public health politics
