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Foundation: the connection projects with society carried out by Ecuadorian universities are an opportunity for service and an alternative to bring their students closer to the community. Objective: to describe the grant value by teachers on the link between university and community in the dental students training process. Methods: observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study of dentistry teachers at the Los Andes Regional Autonomous University from January to June 2022. The population of 15 teachers at the Santo Domingo campus. Results: 100% of the teachers considered that the university-community connection allows the application of the acquired knowledge. The short duration of the periods (100%) and the lack of empowerment of teachers (100%) were indicated as weaknesses; and as positive elements the promotion of microenterprises among students (100%) and comprehensive development in the professional future (100%). Feedback between the university and the community (100%) and changes in training paradigms (100%) were identified as needs. Conclusions: teachers identify the university-community link as an opportunity of great value in the dental students training, preparing them based on the social problems solution typical of professional practice. The lack of empowerment and the conception of short-term projects are recognized as weaknesses, which demands transformations in current teaching dynamics, based on feedback between academia and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to reveal the tensions perceived by community actors in the settlement and conformation of the territory during the internship of the School of Medicine of Universidad de Antioquia in the rural settlement Granizal between 2009 and 2018. Methods: Hermeneutic study that used Grounded Theory techniques to collect and analyze data. Eleven in-depth interviews with leaders were conducted and two focus groups with community mothers, teachers and leaders were carried out which were analyzed with open, axial and selective coding techniques. Results: there is a permanent tension between leadership with different shades and the community unity which receives various threats due to the permanent eviction of their vital spaces by outlaw actors linked to drug trafficking, to the absence of the State and to internal interests for power. This tension seeks to be overcome through the collective effort to learn to survive and through the links that are born from the trust generated with the University and the internship of the Faculty of Medicine that has supported the progressive understanding of the social determination of the health-disease process which has allowed for greater wellbeing. Conclusions: There are constant community struggles in Granizal to overcome the deprivations of subsistence vital minimums, in which autonomy and human development are debated between hope and despair to maintain firmness in the construction of the social fabric and in the search for solutions that make life and wellbeing possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: permanence in university careers continues to present shortcomings, a fact that also reaches Cuban higher medical education. This problem, in direct relation to vocational guidance, can be mitigated with actions such as the promotion of university outreach activities to school populations, which in turn allow the integral development of university students. Objective: to implement a vocational extension strategy oriented to the professional training of stomatological careers students. Methods: an intervention research was carried out at the Camagüey University of Medical Sciences, Cuba, between January 2015 and January 2020. Primary school students, their parents or guardians, and assistant students of the Stomatology and of Technology in Stomatological Attention, directed by assistant professors of the Faculty of Stomatology participated. The level of information about the dental profession, oral-hygiene habits of infants and oral hygiene; degree of satisfaction of the participants; and opinions of the students were analyzed. Results: female sex predominated among the schoolchildren enrolled in the group of interest. At the end of the intervention, an adequate level of information (98.1%) and oral hygiene (98.1%) were evidenced, unlike what was initially observed. Future stomatologists and technologists recognized the personal and professional enrichment provided by the actions developed. Conclusion: the activities of vocational guidance, promotion and prevention of oral health, executed as part of the extension strategy, contributed to the development of interprofessional education and professional training of the university students involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article proposes to analyze the dynamic of political contention during the implementation phase of health system reform in Colombia between 1995 and 2003. This article argues that the direction taken by the changes affected multiple actors in both instances the state as economic power to unions, international organizations, unions, political guilds, professional associations and divers organized groups. The narrative focuses on the debates and conflicts between the state and the societal actors in coalitions established, opportunities for social participation and its effects, the points of objection or defense to the reform and the influence of the correlation of forces in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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