Implantação da avaliação por competência da oftalmologia no currículo médico generalista

Abstract

Medical education is going through a gradual process of reformulation of its pedagogical model centered on the student, of the teaching-learning process and of using new evaluative methodologies which match better the skills necessary for preparing a more humanistic and generalist physician. The more specialized disciplines of medical courses suffer from this paradigm of how to fit in this universal context, so the evaluation by competences emerges as an alternative in the search to select the most essential skills to teach in the medical school. The aim of this study was to systematize the evaluation of students of the ophthalmology discipline of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) through a skills assessment, Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), based on a clear and target evaluation of the skills. This is a prospective intervention study carried out from January to December 2016, in the ophthalmology discipline of UFRN, involving Professors, monitors, ophthalmology medical residents and students of the eighth period (out of twelve periods) of the institution’s medical course. The project implemented a competences assessment as a teaching-learning tool in the discipline, offering a new normative theoretical-practical curriculum, which is under the current reality of medical education, adapting the practical moments of the discipline to the generalist vision of medicine.