The School of Drugs of the Federal College of Bahia (FMB/Ufba) manifested itself, this Friday afternoon (26) concerning the discount of the workload of the Drugs course. After the criticism suffered on social networks, coming from profiles that identified that the discount of 1,590 hours would trigger the precariousness of the course, the School said, by a notice revealed by Ufba, that the change within the workload goals to adjust to the Nationwide Curriculum Tips (DCN).
In accordance with FMB, the course curriculum had a excessive workload, which was in step with different conventional programs in Brazil with the identical stage of high quality as UFBA – there have been 8,952 class hours, whereas the DCN set up 7,200. With the change, UFBA’s medical commencement now has a schedule of seven,282 class hours beginning this yr. Thus, the discount was really 1,670 hours.
Additionally based on the FMB, the modifications meet the necessities for the inclusion of curricular parts reminiscent of these within the space of Urgency and Emergency, in addition to the rules of the Nationwide Council of Schooling, which advocate the inclusion of the curricularization of extension and cross-cutting themes.
“It’s fully mistaken, subsequently, to conclude that such a discount within the workload – an merchandise within the midst of a broad and certified reform, elaborated and mentioned over months in varied situations of the college, throughout the framework of its didactic-scientific autonomy – implies lack of high quality of instructing in drugs at UFBA”, declared the FMB.
Another excuse for the discount within the course load was consideration to the brand new college students who graduated, who’re altering the profile of the faculty, which is traditionally white and elitist in Salvador. Many of those new college students have to work and wouldn’t have the ability to dedicate the whole day to the college with such a excessive workload. This motivation, particularly, was the goal of extreme criticism on social networks. Concerning this, the FBM additionally positioned itself.
“Such an assumption [de perda de qualidade do ensino da medicina na Ufba] might solely have originated in teams of obtuse mentality and ideologically oriented, which the Public College appears to trouble by offering, with out giving up its conventional high quality, the doorway and permanence of working college students by affirmative motion insurance policies”, says the notice.
The FMB concluded the assertion by stating that the Federal College of Bahia is just not intimidated by anti-democratic assaults and reaffirming that the precept that governs the college is Tutorial Excellence and Social Inclusion.
The Ministry of Schooling was approached by CORREIO to tell the minimal workload stipulated by the folder for the Drugs course, however didn’t return contact till the closing of this text. Even so, the report confirmed that, as beneficial by the Nationwide Curriculum Tips, obligatory requirements for Primary and Increased Schooling that information the curriculum planning of colleges and schooling techniques, the minimal time for the coaching of docs is 7,200 hours .
Within the Northeast, the present workload of seven,282 hours of the UFBA Drugs course is the bottom amongst 9 federal universities within the area, which covers all states. On the Federal College of Ceará (UFC), the full workload of the Drugs course is 8,296 hours, on the Federal College of Sergipe (UFS) it’s 7,545 hours, on the Federal College of Maranhão (UFMA) it’s 8,050.
On the Federal College of Piauí (UFPI) the course load is 8,171 hours, on the Federal College of Pernambuco it’s 8,235 hours, whereas on the Federal College of Paraíba (UFPB) the course load is 8,340 hours. Lastly, the Federal Federal College of Alagoas (Ufal), with 8,892 hours, and the Federal Rural College of the Semi-Arid (Ufersa), in Rio Grande do Norte, with 9,536 hours, have the very best workload within the Drugs course amongst universities within the area surveyed by the report.
See the variety of hours of the Drugs course in different areas:
Federal College of Pará (UFPA) – North: Workload of 8,960 hours
Federal College of Minas Gerais (UFMG) – Southeast: Course load of seven,755 hours
Federal College of Pampa (Unipampa) – South: Course load of 8,255 hours
Federal College of Mato Grosso (UFMT) – Midwest: Course load of seven,552 hours
