UNISUS : do projeto político à política do processo

This dissertation results from an ethnographic fieldwork made around a process of institutional transformation at the Superior Health Sciences School, ESCS, which would be transformed in the University of Health Sciences of Distrito Federal, UNISUS, the first district university specialized in health sciences in Brasilia. Having a pedagogical approach different from the usual disciplinary models of medical training, and holding educational activities in the facilities of the local public health system, this institution seemed to challenge the pedagogical models and the political management of medical training in the context of the State. The local political arena was mapped. Therein, the institutional actors involved with the analyzed process interact, arousing controversies around UNISUS Project in the context of democratic representativeness and social control of public health in Distrito Federal. Throughout the study, historical, institutional, pedagogical and political depths are explored while it encourages a reflection on the mechanisms of democratic participation in public health management; on the ideological management; and on the implementation of different models of pedagogical management process, related to an institutional process which was an expression of the transformation of medical teaching in a broader context.