Abstract
The objective of this essay was to analyze how ideologies and public policies influence the syllabus of undergraduate health courses. The technification of higher education is discussed, in which undergraduate courses in health present a specialized, fragmented and productivist logic of health care, and whose syllabi allow the uncritical reproduction of the hegemonic worldview. In this path we build the professional identities of individuals whose social representations are influenced by this system of values, ideas and prescriptions that penetrate the subjectivity of the students. However, as the educational process is dialectical and contradictory, domination does not suppress resistance; spaces of counter-ideological struggle are discussed in the article, as well as the challenges in building a syllabus that values students’ knowledge and stimulates critical awareness for social transformation. This perspective would allow the construction of a more plural and dynamic political environment in which one can perceive the university as a more comprehensive, socially committed, and coherent formation space with the guidelines of the Brazilian Unified Health System.
politics; ideology; syllabus; college education; health education