[Teaching and learning with multiple sclerosis patients: experience report]

This report describes the experience of a group of nursing students from Universidad Federal do Piaui, in face of the reality of multiple sclerosis patient. The experience highlight the necessity of an integrated team to achieve fundamental knowledge and to offer a holistic assistance to the patient. The impact of the actions developed by the students, in APPEM (Piauiense Association of Multiple Sclerosis), allows them to better coexist with the difficulties of the disease. In addition, the general community is favored through the knowledge transmited by the activities developed by the group. We conclude that a wider knowledge about a full of mysteries pathology is only possible when the theory is combined with the reality of the patient.