Professional doctorate in the medical area in the light of world class universities

• Autor(a) principal: Gonzaga, Heron Fernando de Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Gonzaga, Maria Lúcia Jorge de Sousa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional PUC-Campinas
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.sis.puc-campinas.edu.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/17215
• topic: Professional Doctorate in the medical field; World Class Universities; Doutorado Profissional área Médica; Universidade De Classe Mundial

Although, in 1965, the so-called Sucupira opinion, which established the foundations of Brazilian Graduate Studies, starting with the University Reform of 1968, established the need to create professional Master's and Doctorate degrees in the country. Only in December 2018 it was approved in the Brazil, in the medical field, the first Professional Doctorate in Research and Development in Medical Biotechnology, proposed by the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu, of the Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho". With Ordinance No. 389, of March 23, 2017, which establishes the possibility of implanting Professional Doctorates in Brazil, a scenario of challenges opens up for Graduate Studies in Brazil in an attempt to meet the requirements of the legislation, that is, social, organizational or professional demands and the labor market. Therefore, the present article gols to identify whether Professional Doctorates are courses commonly offered by the main universities in the world and to analyze the trends of this modality in the so-called World Class Universities (UCM), having as analytical indicators: main thematic focuses, courses’s objectives, year of creation, vacancies offered, admission prerequisites, payment time, student dedication regime and prerequisites for obtaining a degree. The methodology used in this project consisted of bibliographic and documentary analysis, considering national and international scientific literature, legislation, proposals for Professional Doctorates in the medical field at UCM, as well as those recently approved in Brazilian territory. The proposals in question were obtained from the relevant documents available on the websites made available on the web. There were 15 DP programs in the 13 UCM selected as the first 10 of the three main rankings chosen. The thematic focuses found were Public Health, Bioengineering, Clinical Medicine, Mental Health, Pediatric Dentistry, Orthopedics and Traumatology. The prerequisites for the programs were basically a previous master's degree and experience in the area. In Brazil, there is only one approved program and in it was in November 2018. The observed programs have a strong characteristic of training professionals who will work in practical settings, as from a collective or individual point of view, whether in clinical practice or in the market.