Características e limites do mestrado profissional na área da Saúde: estudo com egressos da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.

Hortale, Virginia Alonso; do Carmo Leal, Maria; Moreira, Carlos Otávio Fiúza; de Aguiar, Adriana Cavalcanti

This paper discuss findings of a followup study with alumni of three graduate courses known as "professional master" oriented toward institutional innovation in management of science and technology, offered by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation to its employees. The study analyzed alumni profile and characteristics, identified evidence of changes in their original workplace and assessed the relationship between the courses proposals, institutional needs and alumni expectations. The paper presents limits and possibilities of this new format of graduate courses, emphasizing its evaluation as strategic for institutional development. Despite of respondents' satisfaction with the courses, this inquiry discloses institutional difficulties to incorporate some innovations, including those concerned to its institutional management.

BRAZIL; PUBLIC health education; PROFESSIONAL education; MEDICAL science education; CONTINUING medical education; MEDICAL innovations; UNIVERSITY & college alumni; OSWALDO Cruz Foundation (Company)

Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 4, p2051

1413-8123

Academic Journal

10.1590/S1413-81232010000400019