Cyntia
Pace Schmitz Corrêa
Physical Therapy Professor and Research
Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physiotherapy at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She has doctorate in Public Health from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2021). Coordinator of the Multiprofessional Residency program with an emphasis on chronic degenerative diseases in adults at HU/UFJF and tutor in the physiotherapy axis, in the same program. She works at undergraduate level with the subjects of Kinesiotherapy and Interprofessional Skills in Health and at Postgraduate level with teaching strategies for the areas of health. Lines of research in Overweight/Obesity, Kinesiotherapy, Primary Health Care, Higher Education Education and Interprofessional Work.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Interprofessionality in Health and Education is fundamental for collective and cooperative work in health in a comprehensive and ecological way of knowing, educating and working1. Aware of the importance of this education model, in 2021, at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, the Academic League of Interprofessionality in Health Care was founded, based on vivid experiences by seven students from different health courses in the Ministry of Health program " PET-Health/Interprofessionality”2. With the aim of continuing to develop skills and competencies through theoretical and practical…
Chronic pain is a condition that affects thousands of individuals who seek health services every day. Patients with chronic pain require a biopsychosocial perspective, requiring comprehensive assistance, which goes beyond the field of health and education. In this context, interprofessional work allows this condition to have a broad view, improving patients quality of life and minimizing suffering. Despite this, there is a gap in the training of professionals involved in this care, both from the point of view of patient management and in relation to the importance of teamwork for the…