Saúde bucal coletiva: espaço pedagógico para o Sistema Único de Saúde do Brasil

Abstract

The Dentistry Course Pedagogical Political Project (PPP), as proposed by the National Curriculum Guidelines (DCN), must guide the students’ formative process, preparing them to work in the current health care system in the country. The collective health discipline (SC) plays an important role in this context. The aim of this study was to get to know the students’ perception on learning from/to the Unified Health System (SUS) in collective oral health discipline (SBC). This is a descriptive study with qualitative approach, which had the data collected from the transcript of the speachs in a focus group (FG), formed by 10 students from the 8th period of a Dentistry course in Alagoas. The categories that emerged in the analysis of the Contents were: learning about the SUS; vocational training; and weaknesses and/or challenges in training. The results show a distance between the curriculum and learning from/to the SUS. The pedagogical space of SBC and the methodology applied should close up teaching and health service, theory and practice, for a better training. The achievement of this research provided a more clear overview on SBC discipline and on challenges that professors must face to transform this pedagogical space in a proper field for the current professional market.