Publicación:

Evaluación de las competencias de los egresados de odontología de la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia sede Medellín desde la perspectiva de los empleadores.

Resumen

Employment opportunities today are based on professional capacity and the possibility of adapting to a changing work environment, which is especially important in Colombia given it has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. In the field of Dentistry, the labor oversupply relative to demand reflects in said unemployment rates that tends to increase every couple of years. The study evaluated professional competence and abilities of incoming workforce as well as actual requirements for a better entry to such. For this, a descriptive study was carried out with employers of public and private odontology clinics that had new employees from the faculty. The employers consider that the incoming odontologists that graduated from said faculty meet the requirements to work at their clinics. It is necessary to dive deeper into the administrative aspects, community work, and dental aesthetics. Among the current problems of the dentistry profession, we find the dental oversupply and devaluation of dentistry work.