Evaluation of the perception of medical students about medical genetics during the course and professional life, in a University Center Of Belém, Pará, Amazônia

Abstract

The discipline Genetics has a fundamental role in the academic and professional training of medical students. Thus, it is necessary that their perception be regular or good during the basic, clinical and boarding cycles of the course, so that good professional conduct can be based and to condition impulses to the patient’s health. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the perception of the students of the Medical School on Medical Genetics during the course and professional life, in a University Center of Belém, Pará, Amazônia. This is a quantitative research, where a questionnaire was applied prepared by the researchers with open and closed questions. The collected data were analyzed and tabulated in graphs and tables developed through Microsoft Excel 2017. We interviewed 120 students from the 1st to the 12th semester of the course, where 90% stated that they had difficulties in the course of the course, 62.5% had their knowledge expanded after the realization of the same, however, 75% considered that the discipline was insufficient to address the entire length of the subject. It is suggested, then, that students may have greater contact with the subject, either in the form of courses or extracurricular internships.