A liga acadêmica de cirurgia bucomaxilofacial como espaço de extensão universitária

Abstract

This Term Paper (TACC) aims to analyze the operation of the Academic League of Maxillofacial Surgery (LABMF) and, with the results of this research, to create na intervention product meant to improve the university extension practices. The present study is part of the integration field of education, healthcare and community, and discusses, fundamentally, the topic of Academic League (LA) and community. The functioning of the LA was analyzed from the perspective of the student members of LABMF, an entity subordinated to the Extension Proxy (PROEX) of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL). The qualitative approach, in its methodological course, opts for the technique of focal group interview to collect data. A total of 4 dental students from two higher education institutions (IES) from the city of Maceio participated in the study. For the interview, guiding questions about LABMF and its relationship with the community attended at the State General Hospital (HGE) were elaborated. The audios of the interviews were transcribed and submitted to content analysis, and the following categories based the discussion on LAs: Statutes of the Academic League; activities, extension and community; suggestions for improvement of the Academic League. From the results obtained, it was possible to identify the distance between the community and the professionals and students that compose the League, since the students look for the academic leagues seeking to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice, however without considering the importance that the community activities have for their own training. The absence of programmed activities with communities in the LABMF statute is well-known, and the very definition of extension present in this statute emphasizes the contact with the specialty, without making clear what is the university extension. This fact, in addition to the LABMF function as a university extension space, motivated the creation of the intervention product of this TACC which is an introductory workshop to LABMF, whose objective is to re-signify the university extension, together with the student members, through the exchange of experiences and deconstruction of prejudices about extension activities in the community, which can give the student the leading role in the teaching-learning process.