Educação interprofissional em uma Faculdade Federal de Odontologia: uma análise exploratória

Abstract

Interprofessional education (IPE) develops favorable collaboratives skills for training health professionals, such as teamwork, problem solving and comprehensive health care, but experiences about Interprofessional education in dentistry teaching in Brazil are scarce. The objective of this work was to analyze the teaching plans of the curricular matrix of the Dentistry course of a public institution, with regard to IPE. Documentary, descriptive, exploratory research was conducted, with analysis of the teaching plans of compulsory and optional disciplines, made available by the Undergraduate Collegiate in 2019 of the Dentistry course at Federal University of Minas Gerais (FUMG). Among the 97 disciplines, distributed from the 1st to the 10th period, no discipline cited principles of IPE. Only eigth mentioned some multiprofessional action, totaling 15% of the total course workload. The teaching plans showed multiprofessional work by observation (n=3) and acting with other professionals (n=5). It was perceived that these disciplines with multidisciplinary work are strategic fields for the insertion of IPE in the dentistry curriculum of FUMG. These results suggest that IPE is non-existent within the pedagogical project of the Dentistry course at FUMG, a common framework in other national institutions that offer this course. In this sense, it is necessary to support and encourage dentistry courses to promote changes in their curricula, aiming to contribute to the qualification of professionals and health care.