[Distance education as strategy for permanent education in health: possibilities and challenges].

The point of this study is to reflect about how important Permanent Education in Health (PEH) is in the promotion of the changes process of professors of UEFS; to establish strategies to promote PEH and show the possibilities and challenges to the operate of DE as strategy to PEH. Bibliographical Revision Study: The result shows that PEH is one strategy to professional formation through colletive works between professors. As possibility: DE makes possible a new style in formation construction. Challenges: Knowledge need to use new technologies of information and communication; difficulty of access to these technologies; scarcity of time to develop the course activities. We learn that DE have a new perspective to PEH.