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- Title
PRO-HEALTH PROGRAM IN THE DENTISTRY SCHOOL OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ (UFPI): REPORT ON A FIVE-YEAR EXPERIENCE.
- Authors
de Sousa Nétto, Otacílio Batista; Silva de Moura, Marcoeli; de Deus Moura de Lima, Marina; Pires Lages, Gilberto; Ferraz Mendes, Regina; Almeida de Deus Moura, Lúcia de Fátima
- Abstract
This paper aimed at describing the Pro-Health activities that made possible curriculum changes in the dentistry course of UFPI. In 2007, the activities started as foreseen in the project contemplated by the Pro-Health I Announcement, launched in 2005 according to the three guiding axes of the program: Theoretical Guidelines, Practice Scenery and Pedagogical Guideline. In 2007, the new curriculum was implanted following the national curriculum guidelines published in 2002 and the first class graduated in August 2011. The main change of the new curriculum was the insertion of the students in the Unique Health System (SUS) from the fourth semester on when the SUS reality and practice are objects of the teaching program. In the next semesters, the academic students started experiencing the routine of the health staffs and to participle effectively of the system. From this report, the conclusion drawn is that, in five years, the Pro-Health Program in the Dentistry Course of UFPI contributed effectively for the insertion of the dentistry academic student of UFPI in the SUS by experiencing the reality of the service, learning the needs of the local population and achieving the desired profile of a surgeon-dentist, as per the national curriculum guidelines.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; COMMUNITY health workers; COMMUNITY health services; CURRICULUM planning; DENTAL schools; DENTAL students; DENTISTRY; DENTAL education; FAMILY health; FAMILY services; NATIONAL health services; ORAL hygiene; PRIMARY health care; CLINICAL competence; EDUCATION
- Publication
Ciencia, Cuidado e Saude, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 2, p391
- ISSN
1677-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v12i2.21746