Verificação do conteúdo de odontopediatria em concursos públicos da Paraíba através da análise e classificação de questões.

Abstract

The guidelines of the Ministry of Health definy that the hiring of the Family Health Team must be preceded by a public selection process. The Pediatric Dentistry represents an area of extreme importance for the dynamics of care in Primary Care since the professionals licensed to the position of dental surgeon will give priority attention to this group. This study aimed to verify the content of pediatric dentistry addressed in public examinations in State of Paraíba through the analysis and classification of questions. Questions were extracted that dealt with the subjects of the Pediatric Dentistry area of available and finished events, from all cities in the Paraíba to the position of dentist of the Family Health Program between 2001 and 2017. Of all the 107 cases were collected and in applying the exclusion criteria, 9 identical tests were removed, totaling 98. After analyzing these, 3949 questions were obtained and of these only 54; 1.36% of the total, related to pediatric dentistry. The questions were classified according to the generic topic they were dealing with and the cognitive level they required according to BLOOM's Revised Taxonomy. The results showed that the topic of oral rehabilitation and surgical management, which included questions that included the contents of anesthesia, surgery, pulp therapy, endodontic treatment, operative and restorative dentistry, dental materials, traumatic injuries and prosthetics / higher prevalence corresponding to 42% of the questions and the most prevalent cognitive dimensions were to remember and to analyze that corresponded to 45% and 29%, respectively. It was possible to conclude that issues related to oral rehabilitation and surgical management were the most discussed in public examinations in the context of Pediatric Dentistry and that the dimensions to remember and to analyze were the ones with the highest prevalence. There were no issues that required more complex cognitive dimensions, such as assessing and creating.