Docentes de patologia dos cursos de graduação em medicina: formação e docência nas universidades federais do norte do Brasil

Abstract

This master's degree dissertation is linked to the research line Curriculum, Teacher Education and Teaching Knowledge – Master degree in Education at the Federal University of Tocantins. Its object of research is the development of the Pathology teacher and its general objective is to understand the professional profile of Pathology teachers in the Medical courses of Federal Public Universities in northern Brazil, through the paths and correlations between training and teaching. To achieve this purpose, specific objectives were outlined, namely: to characterize teaching in the historical context of higher education in Brazil; describe the role of the curricular component of Pathology in undergraduate Medical courses in Brazil, correlating it, historically, with teaching; to identify the professional profile of Pathology teachers in medical courses at Federal Public Universities in northern Brazil; correlate their medical training profiles with the development of their teaching careers. The research focuses on teaching, especially in the training of teachers working in higher education in the health area, which instigated the understanding of the processes of implementation and management of higher education and the constitution of a teacher identity in these spaces. The approach used is qualitative and has an exploratory character. Bibliographic and documentary sources were used, whose data were obtained through searches in virtual repositories. The analysis of the data revealed a contradictory context in the performance of the professor/pathologist as the training path of most of the researched teachers is not anchored in a theoretical construct that contemplates the teaching education and that allows them to develop conceptions of teaching and education in a critical and dialogical manner.