Internship in public health services: dental students’ perceptions and consonance with curricular proposals

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Carolina da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Lobachinski, Kaethlyn Cordeiro, Gaião, Murami Aparecida Graciano de Souza, Schmitt, Ernesto Josué, Caldarelli, Pablo Guilherme, 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/977
• topic: Curriculum. Dentistry. Health Services.; Currículo. Odontologia. Serviços de Saúde.

Supervised internships in public health services are the moment when students can put into practice in different community settings all the theory they have learned. The purpose of this study was to analyze whether dental students’ perceptions about this type of internship are in accordance with the learning objectives of the Supervised Health Service Internship (SHSI) discipline and the National Curriculum Guidelines (NCG) (Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais) for Dentistry. This study had a mixed qualitative and quantitative cross-sectional design. A convenience sample of 135 students from the final year of the course, of both genders and from each of the two course shifts, had finished their (SHSI) in 2018. Participants completed a standard questionnaire, which is administered at the end of the internship. The answers to the open-ended questions were analyzed using content analysis as proposed by Bardin and the categories of analysis were structured according to the general competencies described in the NCG: health care, decision making, communication, leadership, administration and management, and continuing education. The answers to the closed-ended question were analyzed quantitatively by measuring frequencies in SPSS version 21.0. The students stated that they were able to develop skills and competencies in keeping with the provisions of the learning objectives of the SHSI discipline and the NCG. The internship was classified as excellent by 80.0% of respondents. The conclusion was reached that the students' perception about the internship is in line with what is proposed in the documents that guide it.