The Academic Healthcare Network is a teaching and healthcare area that involves the Florianópolis Municipal Health Secretariat and the Federal University in Santa Catarina (UFSC). The network includes four teaching centers and the Polydoro Hernani de São Thiago University Hospital, integrating the professionals working in these institutions. The network links knowledge, consolidates learning models, and fosters healthcare improvements based on the principles of the Unified National Health System (SUS). The objectives are to develop a proposal for shared administration, setting responsibilities and commitments for the two institutions; create spaces for the discussion of integration between teaching and healthcare; promote teaching, research, and healthcare in keeping with the local context; promote continuing education; and develop mechanisms for evaluating the actions. A key strategy for achieving the objectives is the creation of working groups with professionals from the two institutions - staff and faculty - and undergraduate students from the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, Dentistry, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Social Work, Physical Education, and Psychology, thus favoring integration of healthcare activities and promoting teamwork.
Health Policy; Teaching Care Integration Services; Education Higher; Single Health System
