Percurso acadêmico de alunos de graduação da área de saúde da UFMG: análise das perícias médicas realizadas entre 2009 e 2015

Abstract

Truancy in Brazilian higher education is a serious problem and still little explored by the academic literature, which demands an effective effort to understand and explain its possible causes and consequences to intervene on them. The study describes the medical expertise reports and their repercussions on the academic course of undergraduate health students at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), who were submitted to Medical Expertise by the Department of Attention to Worker Health of UFMG, from August 2009 to June 2015, for purposes of full dropping and concession of special regime. Among the 4,090 students who received assistance by this sector, 917 (22.4%) corresponded to medical expertise, 31% of which were students from the Health area. In 91 cases, full dropping and concession of special regime were given without observing difference of genre. Among the students from Pharmacy and Medicine courses, the main reason for full dropping was grief and mental illness. 93% of students of Physical Education who requested a special regime did it for the recovery of musculoskeletal problems. There were 16.4% of enrollment cancellations in the studied period. A Prevalence Ratio of 4.95 (IC95%=4,4;5,5) was found indicating that students who cancelled the course at least once were almost five times more likely to be on course evasion than those who did not do it. The results suggest that the grief and mental illness in undergraduate students from health area should be better studied, and that policies should be developed to promote health and quality of life that follow the graduation processes, guaranteeing support to students and avoiding personal and institutional losses resulting from total interruptions and school dropout. Flows and procedures within the scope of Departamento de Atenção à Saúde do Trabalhador - Subsistema Integrado de Atenção à Saúde do Servidor (DAST-SIASS) UFMG need to be redefined, and the dialogue with the Courses Collegiate must be expanded.