Percepção dos estudantes do curso de Medicina da UFFS, campus Chapecó, sobre o processo de implantação do curso

Abstract

Following the restructuring of the country's medical courses with the 2014 National Curriculum Guidelines and the More Doctors Program, the courses were modified and vacancies expanded. The Medical School of the Federal University of Fronteira Sul, Campus Chapecó, was created in this context, today with 4 medical classes in progress. This paper aims to analyze the students' perception about this course. This is an exploratory, qualitative study, whose data collection was performed through four focus groups with the participation of 38 students enrolled in the four initial classes of the course. The discussions were audio recorded, transcribed and analyzed by Dialectical Hermeneutics. The following categories of analysis were identified: motivations to choose medicine and the UFFS, Campus Chapecó, as a Higher Education Institution (HEI), expectations regarding the professional future and perceptions about teaching pedagogical issues of the course. Among the most relevant results, it was noticed that the perception of academics about the implementation of the course, which uses a nondisciplinary curriculum design and has more significant collective health workloads, has divergences among students, overcome as students They understand the course design and make sure they will be good doctors. However, it was clear that the construction of a new course faces obstacles, such as the inclusion of students in health services and the prevailing medical imagination.