Health promotion demands coordinated action between the public, government and the health sector in order to improve health conditions. Medical training should provide the student with opportunities to have contact with the community and develop health promotion actions in the context of that community. This report describes the experience of participatory planning and community interaction conducted by medical students in an area served by the Family Health Team in Montes Claros - MG, between August 2009 and March 2010. Participatory Flash Estimate and the "Altadir" Method of Popular Planning were employed as guiding methods for the activities. This enabled the tackling of an issue experienced by the public and direct and positive community intervention in determinant factors of the health-disease process, with the support of medical students, consolidating the concepts of Health Promotion and transformative educational practice.
Health Planning; Community Participation; Educational Activities
