Avaliação do currículo do curso de Odontologia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais tendo em vista a percepção de egressos

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Joao Henrique Lara do Amaral
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Estudantes de Odontologia; Currículo; Educação em Odontologia; Avaliação institucional; Curriculo Avaliação; Educação em odontologia; Estudantes
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ODON-AD6QY7

The aim of this study was to evaluate the résumé of the graduation course of Dentistry of the Federal University of Minas Gerais and systemize principles to guide the evaluation and formulation of a new curricular proposal, according to the context of the crisis in the public university, the processes of institutional and graduation evaluation, the National Curricular Lines for the health area and the contribution of the graduates of the course. This study was divided in two parts. In the first one, a documentary research was made of the more recent legislation that deals with the evaluation of the superior education and the available bibliography on the subject. The discussion was made bringing for debate the model of the evaluation of the regulation character and the principles of the educative evaluation. The contextualization of the reasons and unfolding of the evaluation had as background the crisis of the public university and the great social debt with health. Seven principles that are considered as starting point for the evaluation and the change of the graduation education were delimited. The systematization of these elements were made on the basis of the recent experience of the discussion of the résumé of the course, in the bibliography about the movements to modify the superior education, of the area of education, the health and in the National Curricular Lines. The second part of this work congregated depositions of egresses of the Course of Dentistry graduated by the résumé implanted in 1992. A survey was carried through for a sample of 151 egresses by means of a questionnaire applied by telephone. The results strengthen the trend of females in the profession. It was identified a small participation of the egresses in the post-graduation and the preference for the area of Orthodontics. The majority of the sample declares itself as an independent professional working with health plans. A lesser number works with and without health plans. The number of professionals employed in the public sector is greater than in the private one. The professionals, even believing that the profession lost prestige, relate a reasonable level of professional satisfaction. The discussion of the results about the evaluation of the course was made in a way to relative the absolute character that, in the principle, could be attributed to the data in a first reading. The graduates, in general, related satisfaction with the course and with the résumé; with the performance of the professors; with the formation received in the ICB; with the technique qualification offered in the graduation and with the Supervised Practical Training. The worst items evaluated were: the physical installations and equipment; the relation school/job market and formation in connected areas to Dentistry. The choices made by the graduates in the questionnaire suggest a necessity to investigate which is the agreement of the egresses about the set of the professional formation, and its relation with the résumé. The fields of interest of the students and the professionals need to be considered in studies with graduates. This work identified an extensive bibliography about the institutional evaluation and a small production about the evaluation of graduation courses and studies with egresses. It is necessary to associate several elements in the evaluation of the graduation courses and two were presented in this work. It is also concluded that other studies should be carried through as purpose to improve the processes of evaluation of the superior education, mainly taking in account the necessity of an opportunity of an educative evaluation.