MEDICAL ACADEMIC LEAGUES: EXTENDING MEDICAL SCIENCE TO SOCIETY

Academic Leagues (AL) are student organizations directed led to study a specific knowledge area in order to help solvinge social demands. The contact of students with the community allows them to act as agents of social change and gives them the opportunity to attend professional queries. Botucatu M...

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Autores: Hamamoto Filho, Pedro Tadao, Venditti, Vinicius Cunha, Oliveira, Cristiano Claudino, Vicentini, Henrique Claudio, Schellini, Silvana Artioli
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP)
Repositorio:Revista Ciência em Extensão
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs-new.unesp.br:article/366
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.unesp.br/index.php/revista_proex/article/view/366
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Community institutional relations. Medicine. Students
medical. Education
medical.
Relaciones comunidad-institución. Medicina. Estudiantes de Medicina. Educación médica.
Relações comunidade-instituição. Medicina. Estudantes de Medicina. Educação médica.
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Sumario:Academic Leagues (AL) are student organizations directed led to study a specific knowledge area in order to help solvinge social demands. The contact of students with the community allows them to act as agents of social change and gives them the opportunity to attend professional queries. Botucatu Medical School from São Paulo State University has 17 AL which develop various activities in Botucatu and the surrounding region. This insertion of AL in the community may contribute in changing the relationship between universities and society. AL, however, cannot be scientific societies for precocious students’ specialization. To avoid this risk, AL must be evaluated to ensure that teaching, research and university extension are linked. This waySo, AL may contribute to the improvement of Brazilian Unified Health System. In this article we present ALs’ activities as examples of scientific knowledge in service of society. We also defend AL as ways of improving community institutional relations, and not reinforcement of university’s bias.