Visão de professores sobre a formação em odontologia para a estratégia de saúde da família

Abstract

Dentistry experienced a long period of evolution to become what it is today. But, like any other profession, it faces challenges, and the main one is your little social impact. To face this situation, the National Curriculum Guidelines for Dentistry courses provides as expected profile of graduates a general dentist, ethical, socially sensitive, humanized and able to produce increasing levels of health in populations and to assure this training is a challenge that needs to be assumed by all higher education institutions, preparing the professional to work in the National Health System and, more specifically, in the Family Health Strategy. This study aimed to verify the opinion of Alagoas University Federal’s Dentistry professors about the formation of its graduate to work in the Family Health Strategy. This is a qualitative research carried out using the techniques of individual interview and focus group and data was analyzed using the technique of content analysis. The analysis of professors’ speeches resulted in the formation of the categories “Training of dentists to the Family Health Strategy” and “dentist insertion into the Family Health Strategy”. In discussing the training of graduates, professors see that it’s not satisfactory yet but ensure that it is already more focused on the Family Health Strategy despite the fragile contact of students with the Unified Health System and report that one of the factors that makes difficult this training is the working conditions of dentists in the strategy. From this study we prepared a technical report in order to be delivered to the Structuring Teaching Core of the FOUFAL and Alagoas Dental Regional Council and it presents the results of this research and some recommendations to remedy the flaws found; was made also a video where a dentist who works in Family Health Strategy and another one from Academy speak of training in dentistry and the SUS.