Análise do ensino sobre saúde do idoso em um curso de medicina

Abstract

World life expectancy has been increasing and in Brazil reached 75.7 years in 2016. In 2010, our population included 19.6 million elderly people, a figure that will be 41.5 million in 2030, consuming a significant portion of resources in Health Care. The 2014 National Curriculum Guidelines for Medical Course include the teaching of contents about human aging, but less than half of Brazilian medical schools incorporate them. With the objective of identifying minimum contents in geriatrics and gerontology in the curricular matrix of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Alagoas (FAMED / UFAL), defined by the guidelines of the Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SBGG) of 2014, documentary analysis of Pedagogical Project of the Course (PPC) and lesson plans has been made. To that end, tools were developed to analyze the PPC about contents of interest, products of this work and that, when applied, demonstrated only a partial approach of the minimum contents in human aging (18% of the proposed by the guidelines of the SBGG). With the resulting mapping, an executive plan was prepared for the adequacy of predicted contents and inclusion of those not foreseen by the PPC and lesson plans, also product of the research that will be presented to the Teaching Structuring Nucleus of FAMED / UFAL with the purpose of qualifying the egress to care for the elderly and their peculiarities. The elaborate instruments are already being used in new master´s degree research about competencies in medical graduation.