Análise do estágio supervisionado em odontologia sob a percepção dos discentes nos cenários de prática

Abstract

Supervised curricular internships known in dentistry as extramural internships have emerged to fill this transition gap between teaching and work. The National Curriculum Guidelines brought among its recommendations the expansion of teaching-learning spaces based on practice scenarios. This research aimed to analyse the teaching-learning process in the extramural supervised internship at the Faculty of Dentistry in its various practice scenarios of the Higher Education Institution. This quantitative and qualitative study used a closed and structured questionnaire on evaluation scales adapted in a semantic way for students who completed the supervised internship in Dentistry after approval by the research ethics committee. The scales were called: Learned Application Strategies (LEA), Learning Strategy (LS) and Course Reaction (CR), which generated 80 graphs based on descriptive statistics for each scale; an open motivating question for the student to make any comments that he/she considered essential to improve the internship. Descriptive statistics were performed on each scale, the frequency was calculated by item and factor using the SPSS21 program. The results presented in the form of graphs and tables showed gains in training in relation to the internship given the existing potential, knowledge acquisition, skills and application of what was learned. There was concern by the students not to make mistakes, to seek help and to demonstrate what was learned to those interested. Some limitations were exposed, such as the lack of communication on the part of the University, the absence of dialogue and exchange of information with preceptors, difficulties related to infrastructure, locomotion as well as lack of interest in some didactic resources to favour the teaching-learning process. After analysing the whole process the need for new strategies at this moment of transition between teaching and work with planned actions and with the involvement of all was verified. The University needs to plan support for supervised internships, support for transport, equipment, training of preceptors, communication with health services, supporting the coordination of the course and supervising internships, commitments that will contribute to the success of training in Dentistry with a general professional profile, humanist, reflective critic and capable of acting integrally.