Estágios curriculares de Odontologia nos serviços públicos de saúde após as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais de 2002

The supervised curricular internship in the public health services, as recommended by the National Curricular Guidelines (DCN), allows dentistry leads to dentistry students the proximity to the realities and professional conduct different from those performed in their routine searching for teaching-service’s health integration. The objective of this work was to conduct a review of the literature on the curricular internship in the public health service of dentistry courses of Brazilian’s Higher Education Institutions after the new DCN on February 2002 and thus encourage the reflection of its value for the contemporary professional formation. A review of narrative literature was made out, based on the data obtained from the electronic databases (PubMed, SciELO, LILACS and Google Academico) published between January 2010 and Mayo 2017. The final sample was consisted of 15 grouped as following: Reports of the experience lived in the Curricular Internship, students' perceptions of the curricular internship and evaluation of the pedagogical technical and political processes in the implantation of the Curricular Internship. In conclusion, the curricular internships conducted nowadays in the Brazilians Universities are points to go further in the work field, which seeks to bring students closer to the reality of the current health public system, intending to train humanitarian professionals, concerned with society’s respect and care.