Construction of collaborative skills for health work in curricular internships in Dentistry in SUS

• Autor(a) principal: Rossoni, Eloá
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Busatto, José Ricardo, Trein, Raíssa Carrion
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/908
• topic: Community Dentistry. Education; Dental. Health Services. Skill-Based Education.; Odontologia Comunitária. Educação em Odontologia. Serviços de Saúde. Educação Baseada em Competências.

With the establishment of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), curricular changes were necessary to prepare the professionals for teamwork in the healthcare network. In the early 21st century, the National Curricular Guidelines (DCN) were implemented and brought several changes, mainly the insertion of undergraduate students in SUS. This study analyzed the perceptions of graduates of the daytime Dentistry course from a public university in Rio Grande do Sul about the construction of collaborative skills during training in the Supervised Curricular Internships (ECS) in SUS. This descriptive study analyzed qualitative and quantitative data. Initially, 133 graduates who experienced the ECS between 2012/1 to 2016/1 answered an online questionnaire with open and closed questions. Deeper semi-structured interviews were conducted on an intentional sample of 14 graduates who answered the questionnaire. The quantitative material was submitted to descriptive analysis and the qualitative material to thematic content analysis. Considering that quantitative and qualitative data are complementary, they were submitted to triangulation and the results are presented in two units of analysis: Characterization, insertion and professional choices of graduates; and Construction of collaborative skills. Most participating graduates (67.7%) are females and are working in Porto Alegre or metropolitan area (78.6%), being 29.1% inserted in public health services. The satisfaction with the ECS is highlighted by the graduates, who describe them as fundamental for their training. Among the collaborative skills built during internships, learning how to work in an interprofessional team was highlighted by most graduates (85.3%), being remembered as fundamental for the integral care to the user. It is concluded that the Dentistry course has been successful in the training of professionals to work in SUS, with a considerable percentage of graduates inserted in public health services.