[The meaning of home visits conducted by medicine and nursing students: a qualitative study with users of family health units].

Home visits (HVs) are considered an important technology to comprehend and care for the population's health requirements. Therefore, they must be a part of the health professionals' education. This study seeks to analyze HVs performed by first-year medical and nursing students from the viewpoint of family health unit users.

[Educating a nurse for basic health care].

This work aims at describing the experience of the 1st grade class in the Nursing Course at the Faculty of Medicine of Marilia (FAMEMA) in 2002. In 1998, a new Political-Pedagogical Project (PPP) was started aiming at educating a critical and reflexive professional, capable of teamwork, by promoting nursing care in a humane way. An integrated curriculum and the problematisation methodology were adopted as strategies to implement the PPP, tailoring education to the job market.