Teaching procedures used in the Dentistry program of a public university

• Autor(a) principal: Toledo, Natasha de Almeida Dutra
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Raquel Baroni de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/639
• topic: Methodology. Higher Education. Faculty. Dental Education.; Metodologia. Educação Superior. Docentes. Educação em Odontologia

The teaching-learning process has undergone many changes over the years, one of the reasons is to seek to adapt to the generation of students from schools and universities. This adaptation has occurred also in the curriculum of higher education programs, including Dentistry. A way to register such changes is by analyzing the Dentistry Program Pedagogic Project (PPP). The PPP contains vital and important information about the objective, the program, compulsory and optional courses, as well as the teaching procedures that professors are using. The objective of this study was to analyze the teaching procedures registered in the  Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) Dentistry Program PPP and compare them with the teaching procedures cited by professors working in the professional training cycle through questionnaire-based interview. In the documentary research of the PPP we included 50% (15) of the courses of the professional training cycle (5th to 10th period). Then, we interviewed the professors of these courses working in three departments – Clinical Dentistry, Prosthodontics and Social Medicine – which were randomly selected. The teaching procedure most often cited by professors was lecture (93%), followed by seminar (40%). The teaching procedure registered most often in the PPP was seminar (91%), followed by lecture (83%). Six other teaching procedures were cited by professors and registered in the PPP, among them bibliographical research, problem based learning, directed study, group study, discussion, and problematization. There is little diversity in the teaching procedures cited by the interviewed professors and described in the UFES Dentistry PPP. It can be concluded that there is some difficulty on the part of the interviewed professors as to adopting new teaching procedures.