Núcleo docente estruturante: um olhar sobre a formação acadêmica em odontologia

Abstract

This academic work shows and discuss the research conducted in the Professional Master's Program in Health Education (MPES), Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Alagoas, in 2013 and 2014. The reasons and personal motivations for performing this research are based in my teaching practice and my experience as a coordination advisor an undergraduate degree in dentistry. The research aimed to analyze the look of the professors of the Structuring Teaching Center from two Alagoas Dentistry courses. For the development of this research with a qualitative approach, it was decided to hold open interviews or in-depth, with guiding questions, allowing the interviewer had freedom to develop situations and widely explore the issue presented. Content analysis framework was used to organize the collected speeches. As intervention product was created a forum for professors and tutors of undergraduate courses in Alagoas Dentistry in partnership with the Alagoas Dental Regional Council. This whole course of Master allowed approach to the challenges facing the development of research on education in dentistry courses and motivated to seek dialogic interaction in order to build a stronger Dentistry and linked to needs of our state.