Introduction:

the training of the stomatologist requires the management of the quality of the curriculum concretized in a coherent and systematic methodological work.

Objective:

to analyze from a critical approach the program of the subject Pediatric Dentistry for the 4th year of the Stomatology course.

Methods:

a qualitative descriptive transversal study was carried out during the first semester of the 2022 course. Theoretical and empirical methods were used, such as documentary review, review of the Pediatric Dentistry course syllabus and its P1 by expert teachers, considering the components of the educational teaching process given by the problem, objectives, contents, methods, means, organizational forms of teaching and evaluation.

Results:

it was determined that the 136 hours dedicated to education at work are sufficient for the acquisition of elementary skills in child care. Weaknesses were found in the program related to the organizational forms, teaching methods and means, and the evaluation system. It was identified that no subject presents seminars as a key instrument for the preparation and evaluation of the student.

Conclusions:

in the program analyzed, the contents are well designed, as well as the curricular strategies proposed to implement in each subject. It requires modifications in the organizational forms of teaching, which will have a positive impact on the productive methods and the evaluation system. It also requires a relevant basic literature, updated and coherent in its contents with the rest of the literature to be used.

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