Avaliação dos egressos do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde, Ambiente e Trabalho da UFBA, titulados de 2009 a 2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: stricto sensu graduate programs have the mission of training personnel with professional, technical and scientific competence to work in the areas of teaching and research. One of the ways to investigate whether a program is fulfilling its mission is to carry out an evaluation study of its graduates. OBJECTIVES: Identify the socioeconomic and demographic profile of professionals, specialists and scientific and technological production of graduates of the Postgraduate Program in Health and Work (PPGSAT/UFBA) Course, according to graduates. METHODS: Evaluative, epidemiological, descriptive research, conducted in two stages. The first was carried out between March and April 2020, by consulting the CVs on the CNPq Lattes Platform for graduates, and the second between May and August 2020 through an electronic questionnaire. Initially, descriptive and exploratory statistical analysis of the data for both stages was performed. In addition, in the first stage, the Randomization test was performed considering sub-samples, since the data were composed by the population. To verify the existence of an association between the variables, the chi-square test was performed and, in the second stage, the randomization test was performed to adjust the logistic regression model considering only one independent variable. Exploratory Factor Analysis of some data was also performed, followed by Word Cloud for open-ended questions. RESULTS: In the first stage, 163 curricula were analyzed, representing 98.8% of the population. There was a predominance of females 78.5% and graduates in the health field 74.2%, in which 60.1% published at least one article in journals and/or book/chapter, with a total of 196 articles published in journals scientific. Of the 51.5% graduates who carried out at least one publication of a scientific article, 62.0% did it with their respective advisor. After performing the Randomization test, it was found that in 50% of the sub-samples, Journal publication influences the Doctorate. In the second stage of the study, the population consisted of 90 graduates, most of them work in the labor market, 85.7% and 51.1% are professors at HEIs and 36.7% have their Doctorate in progress. Only 24.4% have leadership/direction or coordination positions. Regarding open questions, 43.3% of the graduates explained their reasons for not having published, of these, 17.9% cited the refusal of journals; 43.3% declared having had difficulty during the course, of which 28.2% mentioned reconciling work with a master's degree. Factor analysis showed that graduates are well divided in terms of satisfaction with the two factors, the first relating to new learning and relationships at work and the second to professional success. The results also showed the variables that influence the financial, professional and knowledge of graduates. Male graduates have an 86.6% chance of having professional advancement and female graduates only 64.0%. The probability of taking a Doctorate degree increases when the graduate comes from a public institution, going from 22.0% to 49.1%. The majority declared an increase in income after the master's degree and a high degree of impact of the master's in their professional life, 65.6% and 62.2%, respectively. CONCLUSION: The results showed that the Program needs to adopt measures to provide some improvements and evolution of the course, in order to generate an increasing impact on the professional life of its graduates. It was also possible to observe a lack of publications, emphasizing that this is one of the main items that needs attention from the Program. Therefore, the results of this study can encourage discussions about the achievement of objectives and goals established by the Program and generate initiatives that will enable improvements in training, adoption of appropriate measures to strengthen the Course, providing greater development of their social inclusion. In addition, the results will help PPGSAT/UFBA in its self-assessment process with CAPES.