El proceso de integración docente, asistencial y de investigación en la práctica odontológica de América Latina

Abstract

To study the ideological dimensions presented by different social actors engaged with the odontological practice in Latin America about the process of teaching, assistential and research integration (TARI), is widely important to delimit its range. It is possible to differentiate three conceptions: first, the vision teaching-educative, conceived as the pedagogical strategy that promotes learning articulated to odontological work. Secondly, the assistencial vision as an alternative for the universities to participate in the offer of health services in front of the insufficient response by ordinary institutions of the sector. Finally, the transforming vision defined as a strategy that articulate educational institutions and health services to transform the odontological practice as an effort to adequate it to real people’s needs. Starting from these conceptions and analyzing the main concept of the process of TARI in Latin America it is possible to conclude that political-administrative transformations achieved through the articulation between health services institutions and odontological education, could not spread the social role of the State – according to the “theory of class domination” – for which its impact will be determined by the limits established in the capitalist production model that have defined it historical characteristics as well as for other social processes.