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Abstract This article aims at reporting the experience of undergraduate Nursing students who are members of the Program of Tutorial Education in meetings of the Municipal Council of Health, in a city in the Triângulo Mineiro region. The theoretical-methodological framework adopted is the Participative Management, a strategy which is cross sectional regarding the Unified Health System and focus on joint formulations and deliberations made by different actors involved in social control. The students participated, as observers, in the monthly plenaries of the Municipal Council of Health which happened in the first semester of 2017. The themes discussed in each plenary were registered in a field journal so later they could be brought to the other members of PET and their issues could be discussed. The experience and the reflections that originated from it made it possible to develop a broader understanding of the relations between citizenship, popular participation and public policies, which are significan contributions for the critical and reflexive formation of students in the context of SUS.

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