Relatório de actividade clínica

Abstract

A clinical activity report has the purpose to describe and transpose the dental medical care, made by the author, during the entire year. Having this, it’s intended to justify the choices that were made, in each case, as well as report all the experiences he lived and the theoretical basis and the underlying learning process.The experience gained by the author throughout the several situations, he faced, revealed different ways of approaching each case, which could differ according to diagnose variations, behave disorders, work conditions, external environments and both cultural and geographical reasons.In every discipline is intended to achieve the proposed goals, by executing correctly every technique, sustained by protocols but it’s also essential to acquire several competences and skills that will make every medical care “evidence based”, in the future.The two clinical environments faced by the author throughout the year , due to a 3 months experience in the ERASMUS programme, allowed the data collection, regarding both the target population treated and the doctors that were responsible for those treatments. In addition, these information turned out very important to compare people from different North and South of the Europe, Netherlands and Portugal, and relate this data to their health habits. Having Netherlands as a country where the medical cares are provided in Public Health System, the author was able to compare the prevalence and the kind of treatments of both countries and the health cares and oral hygiene habits both have, as well as the work conditions.

Date of Award	2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Rui Amaral Mendes (Supervisor) & Manuel Fernando Correia Sousa (Co-Supervisor)