This article relates the results of an empirical research on the processes through which medical students' identity are constructed in the university non-formal settings, in a consumer society. The study was theoretically based on some pos structuralism notions referring to the construction of gender identities by the discourses. The results point to the need for educators to reflect that the experiences and selves are subject to change, and to integrate the problematization of the dominant discourses to the formal curriculum, favoring greater gender, ethnic and social class equity.
Citizenship; Gender; Sexuality; Identities; Medical Education