The Professional Master’s Program in Health and Education at the University of Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP) is a multidisciplinary stricto sensu program directed at professionals who graduated in health sciences, humanities, and other related areas. Within this context, the program seeks to stimulate reflections and improvement of daily practice skills, incorporating new technologies for population care that focus on humanized care based on the validated and recognized experience of the scientific community.
The aim of the program is to produce knowledge from practical experiences using an interdisciplinary approach in an attempt to transform reality in order to improve professional training processes by establishing a continuous theoretical-practical relationship. The concerns arising from this praxis enable and encourage the development of research and promote the construction of knowledge and the qualification of professionals who incorporate the principles of the Unified Health System policy into their daily lives.

Compulsory

• Multiprofessional team in working processes in health and education
• Scientific research methodology
• Research seminars
• Training and professional development in health education

Optional

• Biostatistics
• Information and communication technologies applied to health and education
• Education and eating behavior
• The grieving process: losses and breaking ties
• Health education policies
• Group processes and permanent education in health
• Health education management
• PBL: concepts, planning and application
• Interdisciplinarity and social programs based on compliance with healthcare policy
• Methodologies and pedagogical/didactic resources
• Management and leadership applied to education and health
• Planetary health
• Assessment of health education
• Higher level teaching: theoretical-methodological foundations

The Electro Bonini University Hospital of UNAERP offers a place for teaching, research and extension activities during the student’s undergraduate or postgraduate education.

External institutions
Students in the health area can use other institutions for practical activities and internships such as:

• Beneficência Portuguesa Hospital (General Hospital)
• Electro Bonini Hospital
• Basic and District Health Units in the city of Ribeirão Preto
• 1st- and 2nd-grade municipal and state schools in Ribeirão Preto
• Family Health Strategy Units in the cities of Ribeirão Preto and Serrana
• In addition to partnership projects of the university

Research Groups

• Studies on death, dying, and the grieving process
• The dimensions of healthcare
• Life care in situations of death, dying and grieving – contributions from psychology
• Informatics applied to health
• Information and communication technology applied to health and education
• Food, nutrition and behavior
• Group of planetary studies