Abstract

JESUS, Janaína Taiza Araújo de et al. Dental student's first contact with the clinic: experience report. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.3, pp. 78-84. ISSN 1679-5954.

To form professionals, teachers, the institution and students share responsibilities as the learning process provides the capacity to learn, to build relationship, build teamwork, communication and develop activities ethically. Facing this, the present study has the purpose to know and to understand the expectations of the Dental students in his first contact with the school clinic. This is the narrative of a descriptive character situation and also to explore, having as source interview with a 4th semester student. From the student was possible to classify his description into a group divided into three phases starting with desires and expectations, difficulties and success, all the way through the practical clinic and theory about the same subject. Has been detected that the student of odontology in his first contact with the clinic school shows a mix of expectation to do the work and the anxiety due to insecurity caused by the lack of experience with the patient. At the same time, he is facing little theoretical knowledge because this is just the first clinical practice.

Keywords : Dentistry.; Dental Students.; Dental Schools..