Lima, Jônia Cybele SantosCosta, Jaciane Kyvia Medeiros da2022-06-092023-09-132022-06-092023-09-132019-12-11COSTA, Jaciane Kyvia Medeiros da. A importância da interação ensino-serviço para a formação na graduação em Saúde Coletiva a partir do olhar discente. 2019. 25f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Saúde Coletiva), Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/54815Introduction: The teaching-service integration is the collective work that agrees, articulates and integrates the teachers and students of the training courses in the health area together with the work teams of the health services, providing to improve the quality of health care, with based on a training of excellence, focused on the satisfaction of the service's work teams. Thus, it is a very wide channel that arouses in students a critical-reflexive look related to the social demands of users, with the experience and interaction between professionals and users in the health-disease process. Objective: To analyze the importance of the Interaction Teaching-Service for Graduation in Collective Health, from the student's perspective and to verify the student's perception of the importance of internship for professional training in Collective Health. Methods: This is a qualitative research. The study sample consisted of graduating students from 2019.2 and 2021.1 from the undergraduate degree in Public Health at UFRN. After collection, the interviews were analyzed using the Bardin technique. Results: Most of the respondents in this survey were young adults, composed of 64.29% women. It was observed that 61.90% of respondents recognize that the teaching-service interaction fully contributes to their education, as well as their experiences in the service, enabling a first contact with health services, providing integration with the existing reality through the exchange of knowledge between those involved and a better experience with the services. Conclusions: It is noticed that the students of the Collective Health course understand that the teaching-service interaction is extremely important for their academic formation, because in these scenarios can contextualize theory with practice, knowing the reality of health services, contributing with strategies and making it possible to increase their experience when performing their professional activities.Saúde ColetivaFormação em SaúdeEstágiosCollective HealthHealth TrainingInternshipsbachelorThesis