Work in primary healthcare under the Family Health Strategy has shown a division of labor between increasingly specialized health professionals that are dependent on the work of others, thus losing autonomy and case-resolution capacity. Such health teams display extremely fragmented work, in which individual professionals merely carry out their part in the process, without worrying about the overall results and abstaining from their social role. The aim of this article was to report on this trend in a Family Health team in the neighborhood of Salobrinho, Ilhéus, Bahia State, Brazil, through university students participating in the Educational Program for Health Work (PET-Saúde), affiliated with the Santa Cruz State University, Ilhéus, Bahia, and their attempt to change the reality using participatory methodologies for valuing teamwork.
Family Health; Health Personnel; Human Resources Formation; Community-Institutional Relations