The article discusses continuing education from reflective and rhizomatic perspective, covering the need to deterritorialize the current knowledge on health. It is a review of the literature the theoretical reference for which is structured in historical Marxist materialism. The study describes a brief history of the educational policy based on two landmark events in the 1980s: A shortage of workers for complex work, which was called an educational blackout, and the emergence of new higher education in Brazil. Such events, when traversing professional training, reproduce the more hierarchical structure of knowledge in education in work. While teaching in health has limitations, it also offers possibilities and perspectives to break away from the epistemological rigidity and to approach the lower education and growth of rhizomes in health practices.
continuing education; UHS; reflective practitioner; lower education; rhizomatic pedagogy