Socially referenced medical education and market policies of quality regulation

• Published in: Interface (Botucatu, Brazil) Vol. 23; no. suppl 1
• Main Author: Sordi, Mara Regina Lemes De
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Botucatu Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho" Fundacao U N I 01-01-2019; Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp)
• Subjects: Active Learning; Curriculum Guides; Educational Change; Guidelines; Health education; Health Needs; Health Personnel; Medical education; Medical personnel; Physicians; Politics; Population; Professionals; Public health; Public policy; Teaching Methods
• ISSN: 1414-3283; 1807-5762; 1807-5762
• DOI: 10.1590/interface.180712

[...]are its regulating public policies. If, at first, the focus aimed at affecting the supply and expansion of medical seats, the great change occurred in the way of understanding and establishing rules for this process, inverting the market logic as the indicator to open new courses to meet legitimate health demands of the population, particularly those located in remote and distant areas that do not interest education entrepreneurs. According to Ball, resorting to Foucault, considering politics as a discourse means thinking how “discourses are constructed and how they change, but also how they shape everyday existence, that is, in part at least, how they ‘form the objects of which they speak’”1 (p. 2). According to Ball6, policies are determined in scenarios of social, economic, ideological, etc. disputes.