Methodological and operational aspects of the Extra Mural Internship at a Private University in Northeastern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Pequeno, Lucianna Leite
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Marques, Paulo Leonardo Ponte, Monte, Ingrid Cordeiro Monte
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• DOI: 10.30979/revabeno.v21i1.1621
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1621
• topic: Formação Profissional; estudantes de odontologia; Sistema Único de Saúde; Saúde Pública.; Professional Training; Students, Dental; Unified Health System; Public Health.

This report aims to define the methodological and operational aspects of a Supervised Curricular Internship. The setting was of a private university in the city of Fortaleza-Ceará, and the external internship fields agreed with government agencies and non-governmental institutions. The reference was the period of the last five years (2016 to 2021). The internship takes place with a workload of 144 hours and is operationalized in three moments: Prologue (10% of the time), Real World (80%) and Epilogue (10%). In the Prologue there are activities developed for the recovery and leveling of knowledge and actions carried out during the course. The operationalization of the internship from the articulation of theory and practice takes place at the time of the Real World. Students are allocated in groups of 5 to 6 components to work 8 hours a week in internship fields of the Unified Health System. Collective actions are developed in social spaces and clinical-assistance procedures in the dental offices of the Health Units. and preceptor, there are group feedbacks to exchange experiences weekly. In the Epilogue, the internship is closed, through feedback in the form of presentation of the exhibition and reports of the activities carried out. The diversity of methodological and operational strategies of the internship enables a differentiation of students in public health services, allowing a theory to find the practice for the acquisition of skills that will be applied in the Real World.