Resumo

OLIVEIRA, Elisa Ribeiro de; CODATO, Lucimar Aparecida Britto; MASSAOKA, Suely Tsuha  e  GABRIEL, Mariana. Education Program through Health Work: training based on the assumptions of the National Curriculum Guidelines. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.1, pp. 43-46. ISSN 1679-5954.

This study aims to correlate the underlying assumptions of the National Curriculum Guidelines (DCN) for the Dentistry Course with the activities developed by Dentistry students, members of the Education Program through Health Work (PETHealth) of the State University of Londrina. The DCN suggest that professional education should be geared to the needs of the population; hence there is a need for diversification of practical scenarios, for the strengthening of partnerships and for interaction between teaching, service and community. In this integration, the benefits are bilateral; professionals with a profile suited to the needs required for services are trained, and the teaching-learning process occurs in spaces where there are health practices, which favor the training of future professionals with greater knowledge and commitment to face the real health needs of the population. In this context, PET-Health has contributed to this integration and consequently to the implementation of the DCN, because it allows the student to practice the contents learned in college, by working in many spaces of practice, encouraging him to research, work in multidisciplinary teams, develop communication and reflection, manage services and make decisions.

Palavras-chave : Dental Education; Unified Health System; Human Resources Formation.