CURRENT SITUATION OF THE TEACHING ASSISTANCE CENTER FONOAUDIOLOGY OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA: A focus on problems
Speech-language and hearing sciences; Teaching care integration services,
Brazilian national health system (SUS), Situational analysis.
This study consists of a situational analysis of the Speech-Language Pathology Teaching
Assistance Center (CEDAF) of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in relation to its
operation and to its coordination with the municipal healthcare network of Salvador /BA. A
descriptive case study, whereby the methodological strategy was based on the Problem
Approach in the perspective of Carlos Matus’ Situational Strategic Planning. The investigation
used as methodological strategy documental analysis, participant observation, semi-structured
interviews and focal group with institutional actors. The results demonstrated issues associated
to four of the five categories of analysis, these being: infrastructure, financing, organization and
management, which refer to the weaknesses in the formation process of the students and in the
integration of the Institution with the municipal healthcare network. Out of the twenty identified
problems, ten were within the capacity of government and within the governability of the
institutional actors, in other words, capable of intervention by the institutional actors. These
issues included: lack of planning and programming of actions as a management practice,
weaknesses in the teaching-service articulation, insufficient standardizing documents, frailness
in the CEDAF articulation with the municipal healthcare network, inadequate management
model, mismatching percentages of the agreed-to quantitative goals and the responsiveness of
the service, lack of formalization of administrative and technical meetings, absence of meetings
for discussing clinical cases as a part of the work process for speech therapists and
disorganization of the work process of the secretaries. The conclusion is that CEDAF should
institutionalize the strategic planning practice to address the improvisation of actions and
efficiently achieve its important roles: education and service.