Few are the courses of professional formation in nursing that consider teaching activities of the scientific method in the nursing curriculum. This qualitative study identified the real situation of eight undergraduate courses of the southeast region related to the teaching of scientific method. We conclude that, in schools, the discipline in study is compulsory, being denominated Methodology of Nursing Research. The analysed content includes the phases of the research project and the teaching strategy employed was the lecture classes. The evaluations employed were: critical analysis of scientific texts and individual texts. Teachers indicated the importance of a monography at the end of the course and an option for the division of the content in two disciplines with a schedule of 45 hours each.
research teaching; scientific initiation
