Evaluation of Humanistic Training in the Pharmacy Course of UFRN: The Perception of Teachers and Graduating.
Teaching; Curriculum; Education in Pharmacy; Humanism.
The National Curricular Guidelines (DCN), which guide Pharmacy Undergraduate, establish a critical, reflexive, humanistic and generalist education. The Pharmacy school of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) was the first in the country to implement a Pedagogical Project based on the current DCNs and since its implementation in 2002, approximately 900 pharmacists were trained. Despite the changes, some worrying characteristics such as extreme technicality and limited critical and humanistic formation persist in this education process. This research aims to evaluate the pharmaceutical formation, from the humanistic perspective, in the perception of the active teachers and the trained pharmacists, in the Pharmacy Course of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. It is a descriptive research of the type of case study with a qualitative approach, using a questionnaire elaborated through a semi-structured script. The subjects of the research are composed of active lecturers and graduates of the UFRN Pharmacy Course. The result of this evaluation will provide subsidies for discussions and reflections during the construction of the Pedagogical Project of the UFRN Pharmacy Course, which is under review, and will guide the modifications necessary to attend to the humanistic training provided for in DCN.