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New Trends in Qualitative Research

 ISSN 2184-7770

VASCONCELOS, Camila Gomes de; SOARES, Francisco José Passos    AUSTRILINO, Lenilda. Definition of Reliable Professional Activities for Extracurricular Hospital Internship in Physiotherapy. []. , 17, e853.   01--2023. ISSN 2184-7770.  https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.17.2023.e853.

Internships should be vocational educational links with programs guided by competency-based education in accordance with the National Curriculum Guidelines. The extracurricular internship, voluntary and complementary to the official undergraduate curriculum, is a reality in Brazil, but it has been criticized a lot. Trustworthy Professional Activities define practice learning units and assist in supervision. It’s objective is to define Reliable Professional Activities in cardiology physiotherapy extracurricular hospital internship. Descriptive qualitative research using the Delphi technique adapted online. Seventeen physical therapists working in the internship preceptorship and one physical therapist in the course coordination function participated in the study. Three rounds were carried out using Google Forms questionnaires for the final definition of each Reliable Professional Activity by at least two thirds of the panelists. Among 136 initial suggestions, seventeen Reliable Professional Activities were selected and their respective degrees of importance for monitoring the extracurricular internship in physiotherapy. The definition of Reliable Professional Activities for the physiotherapy internship in cardiology allowed the necessary and permanent integration between preceptors for greater clarity in the definition of roles and responsibilities, and ensured the development of an institutional program for adequate supervision of interns.

: Internship; Hospital Physiotherapy; Preceptors; Delphi Technique..

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