%0 Journal Article %T Avalia£¿£¿o da inser£¿£¿o do estudante na Unidade B¨¢sica de Sa¨²de: vis£¿o do usu¨¢rio %A Almeida %A Francisca Claudia Monteiro %A Maciel %A Ana Paula Pessoa %A Bastos %A Aline Ramos %A Barros %A Fernando Colares %A Ibiapina %A Juliana Ribeiro %A Souza %A Sil¨¦zia Maria Franklin de %A Ara¨²jo %A Dayane Pessoa de %J Revista Brasileira de Educa£¿£¿o M¨¦dica %D 2012 %I Associa??o Brasileira de Educa??o M¨¦dica %R 10.1590/S0100-55022012000200005 %X this study adopted the perspective of services users to evaluate participation by undergraduate students in primary care. a qualitative and quantitative exploratory and descriptive study was conducted in a primary care unit in fortaleza, cear¨¢ state, in 2009 and 2010. users of the primary care unit were interviewed with a structured questionnaire containing closed and open-ended questions. answers to the discursive questions were investigated with the content analysis technique and tabulated according to their frequency. seventy-eight users were approached, of whom 51 (65.4%) were aware of the presence of students in the primary care unit (in patient care, educational activities, or home visits), and these 51 were thus interviewed. of these, 96.1% felt it was important for the primary care unit to act as a training facility; 98.0% reported that students' participation contributed to the improvement of healthcare; 98.0% considered this an important activity for the students' professional training; 49.0% of the interviewees had been treated or accompanied by students, among whom 96.0% stated that they felt comfortable with the students' presence and work. from the users' perspective, students' participation made a positive contribution to the primary care unit. %K health evaluation %K students %K primary health care. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-55022012000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en