Evaluation of competencies of students in the health area from the perspective of interprofessionality
Evaluation of the student of higher education; Evaluation instruments; Clinical Competencies; Cultural competences; Interprofessional education
The evaluation of the student of higher education presents itself as a formative and guiding field of professional practices. The courses in the health area are anchored in education and health regulations, with specific guidelines for training, aligned with the principles of the Unified Health System (SUS), universality, integrality, and equity. The National Curricular Guidelines (DCN) of the health area bring in their text the profile of the graduate with the general competencies, common to the students, and the specific competences, able to act in accordance with the principles of the SUS, through effective teamwork, in a collaborative and interprofessional perspective. The National Student Examination (Enade), which evaluates the performance of undergraduate students, requires technical-scientific knowledge without incorporating aspects related to the evaluation of social competencies into the instruments. Thus, in the evaluation of student performance it is important to include, among the dimensions of their assessment instruments, a look that contemplates the development of communication, leadership, evidence-based and cultural practices. Advancing to an assessment of competencies, in addition to technical-scientific knowledge because, students in the health area need to develop the clinical and cultural skills necessary to work in health services. Including the evaluation of social competencies in the Enade could induce changes in the way of thinking about the training of health professionals towards interprofessional action, aligned with the assumptions and profile of the graduate, foreseen in the DCN. Thus, the objective of this study is to investigate the evaluation of health students from an interprofessional perspective and to construct a self-report scale for health students with evidence of validity. An exploratory sequential mixed method study will be conducted with three phases: exploratory, development and testing. The study will be conducted at a public university in Brasilia/DF. Teachers and students who work in the discipline Integrative Seminars will participate in the study. Data will be collected through documentary analysis, interviews, and questionnaire (scale). The textual data will be analyzed with the aid of the IRaMuTeQ software, and the quantitative data will be processed in the FACTOR software for exploratory factor analysis and definition of parameters of the item response theory. In the first phase, a documental analysis (DCN and ENADE tests) will be carried out to identify the general and common competencies of the health area. This study is expected to propose, construct, and validate a self-report instrument to assess competencies and contribute to reflections on the evaluation of students in the health area.