As an expression of current challenges faced by contemporary societies, past decades have witnessed heavy demands for higher education to change and transform. One key question here has been the increased digitalization of higher education. Within this wider setting, this thesis deals with an attempt to handle the increasing shortage of physicians in Sweden by way of digitalizing medical education. The aim of this explorative and longitudinal thesis is to describe and analyze structural and educational transformation work in medical education during the digitalization of the program and the transition from face-to-face to distance education. This thesis focuses on teachers, students and management, who are all heavily involved in this transition of the medical program. Two questions guide the research: (1) what are teachers’ and students’ expectations pending the transition, and what are the influences of already established tools and activities on the program and (2) in what ways do conflicts and changes occur over time, and how do teachers, students, and management deal with these as part of the transition? Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) serves as the theoretical framework of the thesis. In particular, the concepts of dominant and non-dominant activities, conflicts, transitional actions, and levels of learning inform the analysis. The data are generated by surveys (N = 108), logging of actors’ activity patterns (N = 100 teachers and 100 students), field studies (65 hours), and interviews (N = 62). The data cover teachers’, students’ and management’s roles in the transition. The analysis shows that the way of theoretically understanding the transition – from a dominant face-to-face activity to a new and unproven non-dominant distance activity – have proved to contribute to deeper understanding of the process of digitalizing medical education. The analysis further displays how the transition from face-to-face to distance education creates considerable conflicts that over time force teachers, students and management into structural and educational transformation work. This type of work successively renders new educational design solutions and new flexible ways of organizing distance medical education. This thesis discusses how the structural and educational transformation work forces actors to collectively engage in the transition by experimenting with new suitable methods and designs, as digital technologies and technology-enhanced learning (TEL) could make sense to teachers and students when they are at a distance.

Orientador: Aparecida Mari Iguti / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T08:15:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro_ThiagoFigueiredo_M.pdf: 3221194 bytes, checksum: d79cd1511dcb239d46ed687486593eb9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Saúde é um direito social conquistado, e a efetivação deste direito só se cumpre com o enfrentamento dos seus dois principais entraves: financiamento em saúde e gestão dos recursos humanos em saúde. O Brasil tem lidado com a questão dos recursos humanos em saúde através de programas governamentais que têm por finalidade o provimento de profissionais e a melhoria da qualidade da formação destes. O PROVAB ¿ Programa de Valorização do Profissional da Atenção Básica e o Programa Mais Médicos são os dois mais recentes programas na área. O presente trabalho objetiva refletir e analisar, a partir da experiência do Sujeito-Pesquisador como Supervisor do PROVAB e do Programa Mais Médicos, sobre o papel da supervisão prática nestes programas, e também sobre suas potencialidades e limites como ferramenta pedagógica. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa e exploratória, baseado em relatos de experiências do Sujeito-Pesquisador, ocorridas no período de 2013 a 2015. Realiza-se um estudo descritivo dos programas, em seguida são relatadas as experiências selecionadas de supervisão, e por fim realiza-se a construção de categorias de análise. São delimitados três grupos de categorias: supervisão em contexto, papel da supervisão e ferramentas de supervisão. A pesquisa encontra seus limites na contemporaneidade aos fatos, que dificultam o encontro de dados e fontes distintas às fornecidas pelo governo federal, além da própria escolha metodológica, que remete os achados ao olhar implicado do autor. Com este trabalho, verifica-se que a prática de supervisão no PROVAB e no Programa Mais Médicos tem grande potência pedagógica, e que uma melhor definição do papel do supervisor, assim como a incorporação de novas ferramentas, tal qual o Grupo Balint-Paidéia e a Supervisão Ampliada, são algumas das propostas para o avanço dessas políticas. Novos estudos são necessários, para ampliar o olhar dos profissionais, gestores, equipe, usuários sobre os programas e, verificar as mudanças ocorridas, e a influência/potência da supervisão nestas mudanças / Abstract: Health is a conquered social right, and the fulfillment of this right only occurs with the confrontation of its two main obstacles: financing and management of the health workforce. Brazil deals with the issue of human resources for health through government programs to provide professionals and improve the quality of training. The PROVAB - "Professional Enhancement Program Primary Care" (Professional Improvement Program Primary Care) and (More Medical Program) "More Doctors Program" are the two most recent programs in this field. This article aims to reflect and analyze, from the experience of the subject-researcher as a Supervisor on the role of practical supervision in these programs on their potential and limits as a pedagogical tool. This is a study of qualitative and exploratory nature, based on reports of subject-researcher experience, during the period from 2013 to 2015. The author develops a descriptive study of the programs and reports selected supervisory experiences, and finally performs the construction of analysis categories, organized into three groups: supervision in the context, the role of supervision and supervision tools. The research finds its limits in the contemporaneity to the facts, making it difficult to collect different data and sources provided only by the federal government, also in from the specific methodological choice, referred the findings to the implicated author's look. With this work, it seems that the practice in supervision on the PROVAB "More Doctors Program" has great educational power, and that a better definition of the role of the supervisor as well as the incorporation of new tools, such as Balint-Paideia¿s Groups and the "enhanced supervision" are some of the proposals for the advancement of these policies. More studies are needed to broaden the perspectives of professionals, managers, team members about the programs and verify the changes occurred, and the influence / power of the supervision in these changes / Mestrado / Política, Planejamento e Gestão em Saúde / Mestre em Saude Coletiva