Hunters of Joy Extension Project: An Experience Report

Abstract

Introduction: Demonstrate in a descriptive way an experience report in participating in the Caçadores da Alegria project from the point of view of a monitor, analyzing how it supported his academic training in a medical course, the contribution to the population served, as well as the performance of clown therapy, humanizing the doctor-patient relationship. Methodology: the procedure in writing the experience report had an observational descriptive process. Longitudinal data were collected orally from the 20 students approved in the selection process, describing their activities and quantifying the actions carried out through attendance and acceptance documents from the educational institution and hospital. Results: there were only positive points with the project, the contributions to building a realistic view of hospitalized patients, especially children, seeking to treat the person and not the disease. The contributions of the activities showed results such as learning humanized care for students, introducing clown therapy to hospitalized patients and experiencing the practice of theoretical activities. Building a smile as an escape from an environment full of sadness. However, the negative points of the research were the difficulties in finding hospitals that accepted the project, bureaucratic documentation required, acceptance time and slow processes in terms of document accuracy. Conclusion: regarding the objectives of the work, it demonstrates the need to apply extension activities in graduation, as a social role considering the demands of the population. The proposal of clown therapy is extremely important to escape problems as well as for students to appear more human.