Curricular structure of Mercosur countries’ Dentistry undergraduate programs

• Autor(a) principal: Angar, Karine
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Busato, Adair Luiz Stefanello, Santos, Rubem Beraldo dos, Vargas, Ivana Ardenghi, Macedo, Ricardo Prates, González Hernández, Pedro Antonio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1199
• topic: Currículo; Educação em Odontologia; Ensino Superior; Estudos de Avaliação; Mercosul.; Curriculum; Education, Dental; Education, Higher; Evaluation Studies; Mercosur.

This study analyzes the curricular organization of the Dentistry Courses in Mercosur member countries, based on the essential contents’ grouping structure, established by the Resolution CNE / CES n. 3 of February 19, 2002. The programs’ selection was carried out from existing data of the government agencies of the different countries studied, and in the Universia database. The sample consisted of the curricula of these programs obtained in the websites of their respective institutions, comprising 141 Brazilian programs, 8 Argentinian, 2 Paraguayan, and 2 Uruguayan. The hourly loads of the disciplines of the curricular matrices of these courses were added, according to the Article 6 of the “Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais” (DCN - Brazilian National Curricular Guidelines), which is subdivided into Biological and Health Sciences, Human and Social Sciences, and Dental Sciences. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. The software used for statistical analysis was SPSS version 22.0. The analysis of the results leads to the conclusion that there is currently a similarity in the countries’ curricular structure. Eventual adjustments should be made to achieve a regional professional profile, to establish in the future a strategy of "training for integration" that allows the free passage of Dentistry graduates in Mercosur Member States.