Odontologia e preceptoria: um olhar para a prática pedagógica dos preceptores de estágio

Abstract

The insertion of dental surgeons, service professionals, as preceptors of undergraduate dentistry students in the curriculum (extramural), aiming to contribute to the formation of a generalist, critical, reflective and humanistic professional, adequate to the SUS principles, proposed by the DCN Has several challenges. One of them, whose discussion has been occurring in most health graduations, due to its complexity, concerns the pedagogical formation of this professional, transmuted into preceptor. In this context, the research proposed to describe the performance of the preceptory in Dentistry, analyzing the knowledge of the preceptors about its function and pedagogical practice. A case study study was conducted, predominantly qualitative, with dental surgeons, preceptors of the undergraduate course in Dentistry of a public institution. We interviewed 12 Dental Surgeons who worked as trainee preceptors, using semi-structured interview, participant observation and documentary analysis. The data were submitted to content analysis. The results showed that preceptors understand the scenarios of practice as places of contextualization of theoretical contents, perceive both as learners and as collaborators in the formation of the student. However, they do not have pedagogical training for the preceptory. They identify as difficulties the lack of pedagogical training for preceptory and the distance between the academy and the service. It is concluded that the pedagogical practice is still decontextualized and incipient, the preceptors need moments of formation and reflection of the preceptoria, as well as a greater approximation with the academy. This work resulted in two intervention products: a technical report on the objectives and results of the research presented to the Structural Teaching Nucleus of the UFAL Dentistry Course, and an educational blog titled "PRECEPTORIA E ODONTOLOGIA" to provide a space for discussion and reflection on the Activity of the preceptoria.