Evaluation of dental caries teaching in the Dentistry Program at the FAO-UFAM
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https://doi.org/10.30979/BrazJDentEduc.v25.2492Keywords:
Education Dental, Dental Caries, Interdisciplinary PlacementAbstract
This study describes the teaching of dental caries in the undergraduate Dentistry program at the School of Dentistry of the Federal University of Amazonas (FAO-UFAM) following curricular integration, and provides a comparative analysis with the recommendations of the Consensus for the Teaching of Dental Caries in Brazil (CTDCB). The documentary research included the analysis of course syllabi and the pedagogical project of the program. The contents taught, workload, and teaching modalities were identified based on the CTDCB, as well as the courses and structuring axes of the pedagogical project involved. Dental caries teaching is present in 17 courses throughout the program, totaling 324 hours (8.47% of the total workload), distributed across theoretical (33%), laboratory (6.8%), clinical (49.1%), and field practice (11.1%) activities. The comparison with the consensus revealed that 66.2% of the topics follow the recommended sequencing and that 100% of the essential content is addressed in the program. Furthermore, within the axis of dental sciences, the contents are taught in an integrated manner and progressively increase in complexity. It is concluded that dental caries teaching in the analyzed program shows strong alignment with the CTDCB.
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