RETHINKING ACADEMIC FORMATION AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF DIETITIAN: A STUDY WITH EGRESSES FROM “UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS” (UFG), BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva Campos COSTA, Nilce Maria
• Data de Publicação: 1996
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Nutrição
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/9915
• topic: nutritionist; professional practice; professional practice location; education; curriculum; nutricionista; prática profissional; área de atuação profissional; educação; curriculum

The nutritionists graduated from Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil, evaluate determinant aspects of academic formation and its relationship with professional practice, aiming to get the feedback of formation through the activities performed by the egresses. Data obtained represent information gotten from questionnaires applied to the suweyed group, consisted nutritionists graduated in the period of 1979-1992. It was performed an evaluation of the positive factors of formation considered points that facilitate the professional activity and the main difficulties found in practicing because of lacks in graduated course. The main lacks pointed out by the egresses were insufficiency of practical experience and dissociation between theory and practice. Data analysis shows that difficulties faced by the nutritionists in professional activity have close relation with the pointed out lacks in formation, which is being considered insufficient to the necessities of the market. The present study obtains subsidies to think about the necessity of rethinking academic formation while it makes possible to identiQ newroutes for improvement based on professional practice.