Perfil profissional de cirurgiões-dentistas e seu desempenho acadêmico durante a graduação: um estudo com egressos da Universidade Federal de Goiás

• Autor(a) principal: NUNES, Maria de Fátima
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1555
• topic: egressos; cirurgiões-dentistas; perfil; satisfação profissional; desempenho profissional; graduates, dentists, profile, job satisfaction, job performance; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE

Implementation of follow-up studies of former students is an efficient way to supervise the entire process of professional training and curriculum evaluation and guide representative councils on policies for the dental profession. The aim of this study was to identify professional profiles subgroups based on job-related variables and perception about profession in a sample of former students of a Brazilian public dental school the School of Dentistry of the Federal University of Goias, who graduated between 1988 and 2007. Academic and professional data were gathered from obtained from the University Registrar s Office and the Federal Council of Dentistry, respectively. A web-based password protected questionnaire about job-related variables and perception about profession was sent individually by e-mail to the former students using a software manager. Descriptive and cluster analysis (Two-step cluster), between-groups comparison and multiple logistic regression were used for data analysis. Answer rate was 53.0, predominantly female (64.9%) and mean age was 34-years (SD=6.0). Automatic selection of optimal number of clusters included 289 cases (89.8%) in 3 natural clusters. Clusters 1, 2 and 3 included 52.2, 30.8 and 17.0% of the sample, respectively. Interpretation of within-group rank of variable importance for cluster segmentation make the following characterization of clusters: Cluster 1 specialty dentists with higher profits and positive views of profession; Cluster 2 general dental practitioners in small cities; Cluster 3 underpaid and less motivated dentists with negative views of profession. Male dentists were predominant in cluster 1 and female in cluster 3. One-way Anova showed that age and time since graduation were significantly lower in Cluster 2 (p<0.001) and academic performance was lower in cluster 1a. Alternative solution with 4 and 5 clusters showed specific discrimination of cluster 1 by gender and dental education professionals. Logistic regression showed that dissatisfaction with profession was associated to lower workload (OR= 4.06; p=0.012) and lower profits (OR=3.99; p=0.006) and overall negative views of professional performance (OR=6.04; p=0.016) and success (OR=8.18; p&#8804;0.001). It was concluded that characteristics of this sample are similar to others in Brazil: predominance of women, tendency towards specialization, concentration in larger cities and high weekly workload. Cluster analysis was a valuable method for identifying natural grouping with relative homogeneous cases, providing information potentially meaningful for professional orientation in Dentistry in a variety of professional situations and environments. Dissatisfaction with profession was associated to negative views of profession, which may decrease job engagement and affect working efficacy and efficiency