Perception of students about interdisciplinarity as a method of teaching

The graduation in Higher Education in the field of health presents a pedagogical model with a view to directing the professionals for the specialization of the precocius form contemplanting in its formation a biologist model. In this context,the interdisciplinarity presents the possibility of enhancing knowledge and contemplating not only the scientific knowledge and technological advances, but also the wide range of possibilities in which the health area needs. In this sense, the objective of the study was to understand the students' perception of interdisciplinarity as a teaching method. Itis an exploratory and qualitative approach. Information collection was carried out in the period of March 2019, through the application of a questionnaire to the students of the fourth and fifth semesters of the physiotherapy course of a private institution in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia. The data were analyzed in stages, according to the Bardin content analysis method. In view of the facts and results obtained, it can be inferred that interdisciplinarity as a teaching method was well understood and accepted by mosty of the students, who consider it a method capable of providing important driving benefits in the disciplines and, finally, in his academic formation.