O trabalho de campo como dispositivo de ensino, pesquisa e extensão na graduação de medicina e odontologia

Abstract

This study describes the pedagogical proposals of disciplines within the medicine and dentistry courses at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Fieldwork has been backed as a means for linking teaching, research and extension, under the general assumption of a learning-teaching process based on active methodologies, a dynamic relationship between theory and practice, and proposals enabling students to interact with the world of work and reflect on the realities experienced. We hope to contribute towards the debate on healthcare training, especially with regard to the field of public health, consequent to the curriculum reformulation determined by the National Curriculum Guidelines (approved in 2001/2002). We also hope to contribute towards transforming traditional methods into other ways of acting that enable knowledge among peers and capacitation to cope with foreseeable or unforeseeable changes to the routine of healthcare training schools.