Abstract
to identify, among the Academic Master's courses, run by Brazilian post-graduate nursing programs, analyzed in the three-yearly evaluation (2007-2009) of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), the course load stated by the programs for training Master's degree students. a descriptive, quantitative, documental study, with data collected in July 2010, through consulting the above-mentioned Coordination's reports in the item "Programs' Proposals", in the Table of Indicators, available on the Internet. discrepancies were found between the course loads of the 32 Academic Master's courses in the different regions of Brazil, with the smallest having a course load of 315 hours and the largest, 1530 hours. greater discussion is needed about the course load necessary for training the competencies and skills for the profile desired for the students on graduating from the course. The study provides advances in nursing knowledge, as previous investigations on the same issue were not identified. It is hoped that Academic Master's courses in nursing may see themselves in this process and may review their pedagogical decisions in the light of the new models of training/qualification of nursing professionals, centered in science, technology and innovation in the area.
Highlights
The stricto sensu post-graduate course* is a system for scientific improvement to follow an undergraduate course
Those linked with foundations are located in the North-East Region, where 50% of Academic Master (AM) courses are linked with federal universities; all courses in the Center-West region are from federal universities; in the Southern Region, only one was linked with a state university; in the South-East Region, where the private university in question is located, 46.66% are from state universities
Variations were observed among course loads of the 32 AMs evaluated by the nursing area of Coordination for Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) in the different regions of Brazil, with higher averages in state universities’ courses in the South-East Region, principally in the State of São Paulo
Summary
The stricto sensu post-graduate course* is a system for scientific improvement to follow an undergraduate course It aims to develop and deepen the training acquired in the ambit of the undergraduate course, leading to the obtaining of the academic degree(1). It aims to train high level human resources for transformative practice in the area of teaching and research, who must have a solid general education. It allows the deepening of knowledge permitting the achievement of a high standard of scientific or technicalprofessional competency, which is impossible to reach within the ambit of an undergraduate course; it offers, in the university, the appropriate setting and resources for undertaking scientific investigation and the creative generosity of the highest forms of the university culture is confirmed(3)
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