Impact of the curricular component management and professional guidance on the level of knowledge about administration of dentistry students at UFPB / Impacto do componente curricular gestão e orientação profissional no nível de conhecimento sobre administração de estudantes de Odontologia na UFPB

Obtaining basic management skills and including management and leadership as essential components of the curriculum is a critical part of dental students' education. This research evaluated the understanding of management concepts of dental students at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), before and after participating in a Management and Professional Guidance course. This quantitative study assessed the level of knowledge of management skills and competencies of dental students through a validated questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, adopting a significance level of 5%. The sample consisted of 47 students, 18 from the 1st semester, 18 from the 7th semester and 11 from the 10th semester of the course. All students considered knowledge about management extremely important for the dentist. The level of knowledge about management skills and leadership is low among students, with no statistically significant difference between student year of training. Specifically, concerning students midway through their dental training, there was a significant increase in knowledge for all management skills after attending the Management and Professional Guidance course (p <0.05). As for Leadership Skills, there was a statistically significant difference (p <0.05) for "Legal Notions", "Self-Management" and "Management Relationship". We conclude that knowledge about management and leadership is low among undergraduate dental students at UFPB and that the "Management and Professional Guidance" course promoted a significant increase in the level of this knowledge, contributing to better professional training for students (AU).

Obter habilidades básicas de gerenciamento e incluir gerenciamento e liderança como componentes essenciais do currículo é uma parte essencial da educação dos estudantes de Odontologia. Esta pesquisa avaliou o nível de compreensão de tópicos de gestão de alunos de Odontologia da Universidade Federal da Paraíba(UFPB), antes e após a participação em um treinamento em Gestão e Orientação Profissional. Este estudo quantitativo avaliou o nível de conhecimento das habilidades e competências de gestão de estudantes de Odontologia por meio da aplicação de um questionário validado. Os dados foram analisados por meio de estatísticas descritiva e inferencial, adotando-se nível de significância de 5%. A amostra foi constituída por 47 alunos, sendo 18 do 1º semestre, 18 do 7º semestre e 11 do 10º semestre do curso. Todos consideraram o conhecimento sobre gestão extremamente importante para o cirurgião-dentista. O nível de conhecimento sobre habilidades de gestão e liderança é baixo entre os alunos, sem diferença estatisticamente significativa entre os seus anos de formação. Especificamente, em relação aos alunos na metade da formação odontológica, houve um aumento significativo do conhecimento para todas as habilidades de gestão após cursarem Gestão e Orientação Profissional (p<0,05). Quanto às Competências de Liderança, houve diferença estatisticamente significativa (p<0,05) para "Noções Jurídicas", "Autogestão" e "Relação Gerencial". Conclui-se que o conhecimento sobre gestão e liderança é baixo entre os alunos de graduação em Odontologia da UFPB e que a disciplina "Gestão e Orientação Profissional" promoveu um aumento significativo no nível desse conhecimento, contribuindo para uma melhor formação profissional dos alunos (AU).

Presence of management, entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing topics in the dental school curriculum in Brazil.

INTRODUCTION: To analyse the presence and characteristics of curricular components related to management, entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing as part of the structure and teaching methods of undergraduate courses in dentistry in Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is an observational study that used the Ministry of Education's Undergraduate Course Accreditation Platform, which included 424 undergraduate courses in Dentistry on the last date of collection (August 31 2019). The following items were analysed as follows: the existence of curricular components in relation to the proposed themes, the most recurring denominations of curricular components, minimum and maximum workload, mandatory/optional classification, theoretical/practical teaching condition and in which year the curricular components were inserted. RESULTS: 367/424 (86.6%) of dentistry courses in Brazil included at least one of the topics: management, entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing curricular components in their curriculum, whilst 57/424 (13.4%) did not have these curricular components in their curricular structure. The most frequent names were "Management" 99 (45.21%) and "Entrepreneurship" 80 (36.5%). There was a predominance of the "theoretical method" and the number of hours varied considerably, with the most common course hours between 40 and 60 h. The majority of curricular components were inserted in the third to fifth year and offered on a compulsory basis. CONCLUSION: Most curricular matrices of dentistry courses in Brazil had components related to the topics studied. However, due to the variety of curricular components' names, hours, periods of courses and different teaching methodologies, there is a need to redesign the teaching and learning process, defining educational and evaluation models with common curricular components.