Presence of management, entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing topics in the dental school curriculum in Brazil
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Cunha D'Assuncao, Fabio Luiz
Kalenderian, Elsbeth
Carneiro, Davi Clementino
Fragoso Vercosa, Maria Vitoria
Santos, Jozemar Pereira
Yansane, Alfa-Ibrahim
Cunha D'Assuncao, Veronica Cabral dos Santos
Felinto, Arturo Rodrigues
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Wiley
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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.
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Communication skills, Interpersonal skills, Curriculum development, Educational methodology, Undergraduate dental education
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D’Assunção FLC, Kalenderian E,
Carneiro DC, et al. Presence of management,
entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing topics in the
dental school curriculum in Brazil. European Journal of Dental Education 2022;26:384–392. https://doi.org/10.1111/eje.12714.