Educating for change
It is a question that may pose a few themselves. The Medical Care International (AMI), for example, has only register a Stomatologist doctor who has participated in campaigns, volunteering within that body and the association "Doctors of the World" does not even have names in the professional spectrum.
Still, there are various activities to which dozens of doctors dentists eventually join. Only that this is a reality that there is often. The National Health System (SNS in Portuguese) to not include this class, requires that the dentist is forced to operate in the private sector, and so, or he is in office or not income to live, "explains Jacinto Durães. The manager of the Oral Health Clinic, the University Fernando Pessoa, acknowledges that "in general, the voluntary culture is weak, compared to what happens abroad. And by the solidarity among peers does not seem to exist. "Many thought we would be competitors' secret, for criticism he received after launching the project coordinator.
Cassiano Scapin explains that this attitude within the class is created once in the Faculty. "The education in Portugal is based on a philosophy that is not based on prevention. Scientifically, it is known that the curative care does not result in an improvement of needs. Only prevention. And, this being a public health issue, you must change the education. Perhaps, then, have more professionals to participate in projects of social, believes the Brazilian, living in Portugal for 18 years. The University must be open to the community ', summarizes. While recognizing the importance of volunteering, Cassiano Scapin believes that the discussion is much more profound. We have to draw to within the community, these issues have to do with how the faculty teach. While it does not, continue to have, only, pioneering initiatives.
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