Alterity and empathy: essential virtues for the formation of the dentist

• Autor(a) principal: Bark, Marcelo Mocelin
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Posanski, Marjory, de Oliveira, Kauhanna Vianna, Brancher, João Armando, Kriger, Léo, Gabardo, Marilisa Carneiro Leão
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/579
• topic: Virtues. Education; Higher. Unified Health System.; Virtudes. Educação Superior. Sistema Único de Saúde.

Professional care related to health must be based on certain assumptions that go beyond the technical aspect. For transformations to take place, attention to curricular changes is indispensable during the formation of the dental surgeon. The higher education lacks strategies that reshape the way one thinks about the other. Empathy and alterity are virtues that are unleashed, can alter the professional-patient relationship. The aim was to discuss the proposals of the National Curricular Guidelines (NCG), and the contact with the Unified Health System (UHS), as drivers of changes in the academic environment. It was adopted the narrative review of the literature, through documentary research, contemplating the national legislation on higher education in Dentistry, in addition to consulting the scientific bases Medline, LILACS, and SciELO. The keywords used were: alteridade, empatia, empathy, humanização da assistência e humanization of assistance, from 2004 to 2017. Full texts were selected in the dental area that contemplated the interrelationship between the themes. The qualitative synthesis of the literature consulted allowed the observation that there was a change, not yet fully realized, but relevant, in relation to the surpassing of the only technical and curative focus, as well proposed in the NCG and so longed for by the UHS as the professional in public life. Humanized care in Dentistry is still a challenge. However, academic changes that arouse the awakening of the virtues of alterity and empathy must materialize.