Public health training in public institutions' speech-language-hearing programs in Northeastern Brazil: a curricular framework study.
Edicleide Martins da Silva, Ariela de Queiroz Correia Nóbrega, Janaína von Sӧhsten Trigueiro and 4 others
PMID 38126593WHAT IT FOUND
Speech-language-hearing programs in Northeastern public universities mostly teach public health as theory in the first half of the course.
This leaves students without practical experience in primary care, potentially hindering their future work in community health settings.
Key findings
01In most analyzed public programs, public health courses are predominantly theoretical and offered in the first half of the undergraduate curriculum.
02Public health courses account for approximately 10 to 20% of the total course load, with the majority of these hours being elective or optional rather than required.
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What it does not show
The study only analyzed public institutions; most speech-language-hearing programs in the region are private and were excluded due to insufficient public data. The researchers could not analyze the specific content of the courses because syllabi were not publicly available for all programs. The sample size was small, covering only eight of the twenty-one programs identified in the region.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this lack of practical public health training applies to all speech-language-hearing programs in Brazil. The study only examined eight public institutions, and the authors explicitly state that most programs in the region are private and were not analyzed.