RETS - Rede Internacional de Educação de Técnicos em Saúde

The 2nd General Meeting of the International Education Network for Health Technicians , held last December at the Polytechnic School of Health Joaquim Venancio (EPSJV / Fiocruz) in Rio de Janeiro, is the main topic for the fifth edition of the RETS Magazine. It is aiming to involve more people to have access to discussions and presentations made during the meeting, as well as giving more transparency to the actions of the Network.
In this sense, the meeting was focus not only on the cover story, but also on the interview of this paragraph, in which the Director of the EPSJV, Isabel Brasil, talks about the role and challenges of the school as the Executive Secretariat of RETS and also about important issues related to complex processes of technical cooperation, especially in international terms.
In the ‘Experiences report’, the reader will have the opportunity to see how a group of professionals in the Management of Health Training of the Province of Buenos Aires is getting updated and “recreate” a training initiative that has yielded good results in the past to try to meet current demands.
In ‘Glossary’, we continue to treat the term ‘technical education for health’ and, based on the work of the EPSJV’s researcher Marise Ramos, as well as presenting a brief analysis of two non-critical pedagogical trends of education: the technicality and the pedagogy of skills.
The highlight in the ‘On the watch’ goes to the launch by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), the Resources Requirements Tool (RTT), a new technology that contributes to a reduction of global shortage of health personnel by improving the planning in the area of human resources.
Finally, this issue also means the beginning of the work of the Editorial Board of RETS, made during December’s meeting. The idea of creating an editorial board came from the wish of making more collective the process of production of the magazine, and even closer to the different national and institutional arrangements that compound the universe of education of health professionals. The expected result is that the publication, reflecting increasingly the principles and purposes of the Network, will be more profitable for all who are interested in many aspects of the topic.

Happy reading!
RETS Executive Secretariat