Formative research and didactic strategies in Dentistry.

Abstract

In a knowledge society, where new ways of learning and establishing exchange relationships prevail, there is a need for skills for using constant knowledge and knowing how to adapt it to one's own situations. In this context, dental education requires students who can use that knowledge autonomously and strategically. This “use” is achieved through the formation of academic, research and professional skills throughout the undergraduate degree. Referring to research, there is a need to teach how to research and do research;1 as such, the subjects must have didactic-methodological strategies that are oriented to motivate the search for knowledge and generate concerns around an object of study. Make the student contact the real professional environment and its object of study...