The supervisors’ perspective on comprehensiveness among the Cuban doctors participating in the Mais Médicos Program (More Doctors)

ABSTRACT Supervision in the Mais Médicos Program (PMM) contemplates clinical-pedagogical actions, with the aim to qualify care, and articulates with the relevant strategy of doctors’ fixation in primary care. This article analyzes the supervisors’ perspective about Cuban doctors of the PMM in the city of Rio de Janeiro regarding the comprehensiveness of practices, explored in its dimensions of the biopsychosocial approach of care with community orientation and the expanded range of promotion, prevention and care actions. Thematic analysis of the monthly reports of supervision were carried out, between 2013 and 2015, and focus group with supervisors. Results show that Cuban doctors in PMM develop a wide range of actions, with community insertion, preventive approach, planning of activities and good interpersonal relationship. Challenges that were not restricted to the PMM, in many cases, were related to an approach focused on the person, on the mental health and in the insufficient performance of certain procedures.