OVERVIEW OF CAREER MANAGEMENT IN DENTISTRY: CHALLENGES AND TRENDS FOR THE FUTURE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS

Abstract

Career management has faced several innovations, as a result of the economy, politicians and social contexts. Such changes are justified to the detriment of technological advancement, globalization, communication process, outsourcing, unemployment (PEREZ, 2021). It becomes relevant to reflect and outline a career plan, in order to find a way to put it into practice, to have the attitude to move towards the achievement of both personal and professional goals. To describe the perception of career management, seen by students in the health area at a private university in Belo Horizonte. This is a quantitative research, with the purpose of obtaining results responding to the guiding problem of this study. All students of the dentistry course from Brazilian public and private universities were included, who answered a semi-structured questionnaire, resulting in the following results: Gender: 76.9% of the interviewees were female and 23.1% male; Age 58% of students are in the age group of 25 years; active in the area represent 38%; 79.3% of these students are attending their first undergraduate degree; 20.7% are in their second degree. As for the profile of receipts, 37.9% receive between 1 and 2 thousand reais per month, and 50.7% have a salaried employment relationship, 70.9% have never taken a vocational test to choose dentistry. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that in current times, important changes in the work scenario are visible. The objectives of this study were achieved evidencing the commitment of dentistry students, however, contrary to expectations, it was noted that the individual initiative to develop the career is unsatisfactory as well as there is no support from the HEIs due to the lack of disciplines in the management of clinical careers and offices in the course.