The teaching of medical clinic for dental students
a national screening of dentistry courses in Brazil
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30979/BrazJDentEduc.v25.2474Keywords:
Education Dental, Comorbidity, Clinical MedicineAbstract
The objective of this study is to evaluate the curricular components of systemically compromised patients in dentistry courses in Brazil until the pre-pandemic period through documental analysis. This study is a cross-sectional study that used a secondary data source based on the STROBE checklist. Publicly available data from regulated dentistry courses in Brazil in activity in 2020 were analyzed. Educational institutions were collected from the Ministry of Education online platform, then the website of each institution was searched on Google Search. Data were obtained by two trained examiners and calibrated by a gold standard, being tabulated in a standard Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and exported to the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software. At the end of the screening, 241 institutions were fully analyzed, where 75.1% had at least one discipline related to stomatology, special care in dentistry and hospital dentistry, with stomatology being mandatory. These three disciplines contemplate the knowledge of dentistry students in relation to systemic diseases and clinical medicine, and when it is not in the curriculum of the courses, it can cause insecurity in dentists in the care of these patients. Thus, in a post-COVID-19 pandemic context, where many patients have developed systemic impairments secondary to this infection, it will be necessary to increase dental education related to clinical medicine.
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