Alignment of Different Pedagogical Projects of Medicine Courses with the National Curricular Guidelines

ABSTRACT

The objective of this research was to analyze the pedagogical projects of two undergraduate medical education courses (CPP) to determine the degree of alignment with the National Curricular Guidelines (NDC) of Medical Education, aiming to understand the differences that arise from the curricular models adopted. Three medical education experts were invited to review the documents relating to the course pedagogical projects (CPP) and to complete an evaluation instrument developed to evaluate adherence to the previously published ten-dimensional DCN 2001. The score calculated from the instrument classifies the schools in relation to the degree of adherence to the DCN, with scores ranging from 0 ≤ to 20%, from 20 to ≤ 40%; 40 to ≤ to 60%; from 60 to ≤ to 80% and from > 80% considered respectively, divergent, poorly adherent, regular adherence, adherent moderately and strongly adherent. Content analysis of PPPs was also conducted to search for evidence on domains in the text. The total scores of 47.5% (Institution of Higher Education 1) and 82.5% (Institution of Higher Education 2), showed regular adherence of the PPC of Institution of Higher Education 1 and marked of the CPP of Institution of Higher Education 2 to DCN 2001. These differences were manifested especially in the dimensions of the adequacy of the teaching methodology to the course design, of the interrelationship of the disciplines in the conception and execution of the curriculum and in the existence of integrating modules or themes. The CPP analyzes showed that, in general, there is adherence to the DCN in different stages. We observed a good reliability of this instrument used in the analysis of the three evaluators for both institutions of higher education (Cronbach’s alpha of 0.77 for Institution of Higher Education 1 and Cronbach’s alpha of 0.75 for the Institution of Higher Education 2). The comparison of the means of the scores of the evaluators by size was submitted to a significance analysis with the Student t Test. It is concluded that the two schools, in intensity and in different ways and respecting the institutional culture, gradually incorporated the framework of the national curricular guidelines.

Curriculum; Medical Education; Active Methodologies; Problem-Based Learning