This article is part of the author's master's dissertation, one of the specific goals of which was to discuss ideas about comprehensive health care among medical interns from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). This concept is incorporated across the curriculum of the UFF medicine course. The methodology employed was theoretically based on Symbolic Interactionism, using the procedures of literature review, field journal, projective individual interviews and focus groups. We realized that the students could identify situations where the concept was present or not, but had difficulties in defining it. Yet we also observed that its application was very clear; considered by students as an advantage to the UFF course in relation to other schools. The students also reported feeling a lack of deeper discussions on the subject, during a stage considered critical time for them (Internship Program). We also identified differences in the attitudes conveyed by some students in the individual interviews and in the focus groups, demonstrating peer pressure influence.
Medical Education; Internship and Residency; Comprehensive Health Care