Contribution of the Subject of Pediatric Dentistry in academic training focused on Primary Care: experience report

• Autor(a) principal: Chevitarese, Leila
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Alves, Flávia Cariús Tesch Ferreira, Teixeira, Diego de Andrade, Miasato, José Massao, Silva, Luciana Alves Herdy da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1658
• topic: Primary Care; Health Education; Dental Students; Pediatric Dentistry; Oral Health; Atenção Básica; Educação em Saúde; Estudantes de Odontologia; Odontopediatria; Saúde Bucal

The present study aimed to report the contribution of the subject Pediatric Dentistry and Supervised Internship for Children and Adolescents to the training of UNIGRANRIO dentists to the exercise in Primary Care, through the presentation of experience reports prepared by undergraduates of the ninthperiod, from the theoretical discussion of the work process in Primary Care with emphasis on the role of the general practitioner with pregnant women, babies, children, and adolescents. The activity was carried out by 3 groups (2 from Campus Duque de Caxias and 1 from Campus Barra da Tijuca). Students (n=103) were divided into 20 groups of 5 students each, who presented their work for 4 weeks, where 15 addressed a problem situation in localities (collective approach) and 5 handled a problem situation related to dental care (clinical case). After the presentation, there was a debate among professors of the subject, the group members and the other students to clarify doubts and deepen questions related to the activity’s objective. This experience report demonstrated that students were able to identify collective and individual health problems and propose contextualized coping measures of a preventive, curative, and health promotion character. Thus, the subject of Pediatric Dentistry contributed to the formation of the future dentist from UNIGRANRIO, enabling them to work in Primary Care and outline coping measures to meet the health needs of the Brazilian population, which is aimed by UNIGRANRIO and whose profile follows the National Curricular Guidelines for Dentistry Programs.