Supervision of academic internships in Dentistry using active methodologies. A horizontal construction of learning.

Abstract

Introduction: The supervised academic internship, in line with the National Curriculum Guidelines for graduation courses in Dentistry, aims to develop skills and competencies by seeking pedagogical learning practice in the experience of social reality and collaborating in the solution of oral health/disease problems, according to the needs of users of the Unified Health System services. Objectives: to describe the experience of supervising an academic internship in dentistry in Primary Health Care at a PCU in the city of Contagem, MG. Experience report: the planning of the internship by the family strategy dental surgeon included the construction of all the work in the field with the active participation of the interns, using active learning methodologies as the main strategies, especially Problem-Based Learning and the use of Popular Health Education resources, stimulating exchanges between the team and the community. Final thoughts: the involvement of the students throughout the process in a constructive way, as the center of their own learning, contributed to the development of the skills proposed by the partner institution within the objectives of the internship, fulfilling an important role in the training of undergraduate dentistry students, in the sense of applying the concept of comprehensive oral health care, humanized care and encouraging interdisciplinarity.