The registration teaching of medical records in the hospital occupational therapy context

Considering the obligation of registration of the medical records whenever there are consultations provided by the occupational therapist, as well as notes on the need for greater investments in initial and continuing education about this theme, this study sought to stratify data about the teaching process in the Brazilian graduation about the medical record in the field of occupational therapy in hospital contexts. This is a documentary study, being initially carried out a consultation in the E-mec system to verify the active courses of occupational therapy in Brazil. This survey consisted of the e-mailing of a questionnaire to the courses coordinations to map the theoretical subjects and occupational therapy internships in hospital settings and, consequently, the capture of the respective syllabus, which were analyzed through descriptive statistics. The final sample involved 24 questionnaires filled out by the course coordinators and 28 syllabi, being found in only 11 of them, the content linked to the research topic. It was verified that the teaching of medical record occurs especially harnessed to the practice and based on the scanty presentation of theoretical fundamentals as norms and models. The weaknesses observed imply in the tensions about the professional public discourse since the annotations in medical records constitute a way of recognition of the occupational therapeutic work and foundation of scientific researches.