# Health and Social Sciences working together in Community-Based Learning: Is this possible?

## TL;DR

This paper explores how health and social sciences can work together in community-based learning to train well-rounded medical professionals.

## Contribution

It demonstrates the feasibility of integrating community-based learning to foster interdisciplinary and holistic medical education.

## Key findings

- Community-based learning can actively involve students in knowledge construction.
- The approach promotes integration of biological, psychological, social, and environmental dimensions in medical training.
- It supports a holistic and socially responsible approach to healthcare education.

## Abstract

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This is a case study of the experience of integration of health teaching and the community, which aims to bring medical students closer to the context in which health users are inserted. This paper aims to present a case related to the experience of a multiprofessional team in the Community Based Learning Module of an undergraduate course of Medicine in the State of Paraná/Brazil, the goal of which is to train physicians with a solid technical and scientific profile based on a holistic vision that allows a competent professional action on the health and disease process in the perspective of health care integrality, with social responsibility and commitment to citizenship. The case presented shows that it is possible to use methodologies favoring the active participation of the student in the construction of knowledge and integration of contents; promotion of integration and interdisciplinarity that is consistent with the axis of curriculum development, seeking to integrate the biological, psychological, social and environmental dimensions.