RETS - Rede Internacional de Educação de Técnicos em Saúde

Although we are engaged in final preparations for the 3rd General Meeting of RETS, which will take place on November 7th and 8th in Recife (Pernanbuco), Brazil, we feel very happy to publish another issue  of RETS magazine. There are many tasks to be done; sending out invitation letters, booking accommodation, finishing the schedule, contacts with speakers and dissemination of the meeting for members of the Network. The most important thing, however, is that the new edition of the magazine is not late; it will be published on the website of the Network before our Meeting.

In a very helpful interview, the director of Joaquim Venancio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV/Fiocruz), current head office of the Executive Secretariat of RETS, Paulo César de Castro Ribeiro, denotes the importance of the participation of all members of the Network in the General Meeting and highlights: “The work in Network has some weaknesses such as the fluidity requires a very intensive labor, since there is a tendency of dispersion and weakening of the initiative over time”.

The cover store brings, from the province of Chubut (Argentina), a successful experience in the field of community health education. In the article, you will know the book in which the technical-pedagogical multidisciplinary team records various aspects of the process of health workers in the province.

Continuing the series of texts on the curriculum of the education of health technicians, we presents in this edition, some of critical theories that guide the discussion in this area. And the topic is not over. In the next edition, the idea is to discuss some of the so-called post-critical theories of curricula.

Finally, we also highlight a story about results of the 2nd Measurement of the Regional Goals for Human Resources for Health, an issue that becomes important before the realization, also in November (10-13), in Recife, of the 3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. According to information released by the Regional Observatory of HRH, the current measurement data, completed in only nine countries, show that there was some progress on the issue of human resources, but it is too early to celebrate. There is still much to be done and the time seems to be increasingly scare for overcoming the challenges proposed.

Have a nice read!

Executive Secretariat of RETS