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LAMERS, Juliana Maciel de Souza; BAUMGARTEN, Alexandre; BITENCOURT, Fernando Valentim  e  TOASSI, Ramona Fernanda Ceriotti. Curriculum changes in higher education in Dentistry: innovations, resistance and obtained advances. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.4, pp. 02-18. ISSN 1679-5954.

This article analyzes the development of an integrated curriculum of Dentistry guided by the National Curriculum Guidelines and based on skills in a public university from the southern of Brazil. The articulation of academic activities with the work world in the Unified Health System (SUS) was one of the major changes in this curriculum proposal. The method of research was predominantly qualitative, characterized as a case study. The application of questionnaires and conducting of semi-structured individual interviews composed the analysis corpus. The study included 59 teachers, seven administrative staff and three managers of the course. The results qualify the curriculum evaluated about the integration between teachers from different departments and among other areas (interdisciplinarity); humanized care in health focused on the needs of the individual/patient; incentive to citizenship; integrated clinical teaching, organized by complexity of procedures; and supervised internships in the SUS practice scenarios (primary care, medium and high complexity services, as well as health management). The curriculum integration, one of the main principles in the curriculum, was recognized as a potentiality, but also was established as a challenge to the process of consolidation. The teaching qualifications to act in this curriculum, as well as the continuing curriculum evaluation, were aspects that stood out for the strengthening of the course. Strengths and challenges were presented and discussed in relation to an integrated curriculum model in dentistry, pointing to the need of permanently rethink this curriculum, promoting educational practices renewed and democratic.

Palavras-chave : Educational Measurement.; Curriculum.; Education; Higher.; Education; Dental..