Health care management in curricular internships in Dentistry at SUS

• Autor(a) principal: Rossoni, Eloá
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Muller, Milena Marcele
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1688
• topic: Health Management; Dental Care; Dentistry Education; Internships; Gestão em Saúde; Atenção Odontológica; Educação em Odontologia; Estágios

After the National Curriculum Guidelines (DCN), in 2002, the curriculum of undergraduate courses in Dentistry became more sensitive to the needs of the Unified Health System (SUS). This study aimed to analyze the perceptions of graduates of a Dentistry course at a public university about their experiences in health care management during their curricular internships at SUS. This was a descriptive study with qualitative and quantitative data, conducted by a questionnaire containing 32 questions, student reports in the internship in Primary Health Care and interviews. The questionnaire was sent to 491 graduates from 2012/1 to 2017/2, of which 172 graduates agreed to participate and responded to the questionnaire. An intentional sample of 14 graduates was invited to perform the interviews. The quantitative material was analyzed by descriptive statistics, and qualitative data were systematized and submitted to thematic content analysis. The thematic category dimensions of health care management were analyzed considering the theoretical framework of Cecílio (2011). The graduates had mean age 26 years, most (70.1%) were females and 30.4% were employed in the public health network. Insertion in the community, understanding of SUS, work in an interprofessional team and understanding of the culture and different realities of users were part of the training itinerary of graduates, to prepare them for the comprehensive attention to the user. It is concluded that the practice scenarios of curricular internships allowed students to interact with the various dimensions of health care management.