Alumni profiling of dentists who graduated from the Federal University of Ceará and their perceptions on the labor market

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, João Pedro Coelho de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Firmeza, Luiza Maria Dias, Almeida, Maria Eneide Leitão de, Teixeira, Ana Karine Macedo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1073
• topic: Education; Dental. Gender Inequalities. Labor Market.; Educação Odontológica. Desigualdade de Gênero. Mercado de Trabalho.

This study aimed to identify the alumni profile of dentists who graduated from the Federal University of Ceara and to explore their perceptions of the labor market. A cross-sectional study was carried out with the application of a questionnaire to graduates from 2010/1 to 2018/1, via google forms. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and by the Student’s and Chi-squared tests with the significance level set at 5%. One hundred and sixty-nine (38.8%) out of 435 alumni dentists participated in the research. The majority of them (83%) started working up to one month after graduation and had also completed a graduate course (87.6%) by the time of the data collection. The working hours of 44.3% of the participants exceed 40 hours per week. The mean salary of the participants is 5.4 minimum wages, and an imbalance between worked hours and salary was found when comparing different genders. Additionally, while 15.7% of the participants worked as professors, associating this occupation with other professional activities, 15% of the alumni dentists worked in private dental offices and 25.3% worked in the public service. After graduating, most of the dentists felt partially prepared for the job market (53.8%), which was evaluated as “regular” (51.5%). Regarding the level of satisfaction with the field of dentistry, 76.8% of the participants perceived the dental profession as good and excellent. However, the alumni dentists pointed deficiencies regarding their education on the topics of private and public management. Therefore, it can be concluded that the alumni dentists were promptly absorbed by the job market, have a high weekly workload, are satisfied with the profession, but consider the job market only as regular. Moreover, this investigation brings light to gender inequalities in the labor market of dentistry.