Approach to the topic “impact of drugs on oral health” in waiting rooms: political-pedagogical experiments by trainee academics

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the political-pedagogical significance of experiences experienced by trainees of a dentistry course in the waiting rooms. Methodology: qualitative study transversally structured under narrative-descriptive strategy and molded to the argumentative technique. Results: the “Clerkship of Integrated Clinic in Primary Care” was didactically systematized in two periods, “Pre-intervention” and “Intervention”. From the first, two actions were unveiled: the “Contextualization of the Interns” and the “Structuring, Environmentalization and Survey of Work Environment Needs”. The second was guided by the pedagogical logic of the “TPC” (Theorize-Practice-Criticize) instrument, where all programmed actions followed the active logic of strategic planning, contextualized to the realities of the practice scenario (waiting rooms). Conclusion: from the experiments experienced some inferences stood out: the effectiveness of the “TPC” instrument in guiding the trainee academics in the strategic planning of health education actions in the waiting rooms; the recognition of the waiting rooms as fertile territory for the development of health education actions; the importance of disseminating, in scientific spaces, the learning that comes from practical experimentation of internships.