Educación permanente, continuada y de servicio: desvelando sus conceptos

this is a study about the already found concepts in the literature regarding permanent education, continuous educatiuon and education of use, we settled as an objetctive: to analyze the concepts of permanent education, continuous education and education of use and to see how they are related. the integrative assessment was used as methodology, and it was carried out in the databases: medline, lilacs, bdenf. through the descriptors, the aplication on the criteria, the selection of the study and after having read the tittles and summaries, we reached a result of 25 articles, and after having read the texts two articles were excluded, adding up 23 articles to be analyzed. the articles are classified in three thematic axis, according to the educative process conceived, and from the interpretation of the data we framed these studies in the following emergent categories: continuous education as a factor that influences in the professional development, permanent education in health as a pedagogical practice based on the significative learning and permanent education, continuous education and education of use : differences and conceptual frames. we highlitght that many of them are a knowledge produced about the processes of permanent, continuous and education of use, and that its concepts are clearly different, so they have a complementary and non-exlcuyent meaning. however, in spite of the fact that they are based on different methodologies, there are conflicts when considering each one of these educative processes.