ABSTRACT
Qualitative-quantitative documentary research, which aimed to analyze the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program legislative process and normative acts. The study categorizes the 575 amendments submitted and the changes in the Provisional Measure. It shows the set of interests and disputes involved in the process, resulting in changes mainly in the Medical Education Chapter. It highlights the clashes in the amendments that serve corporate interests and those allied to the constitutional principle of universal health. It concludes that the controversy, interests and dispute among ideological positions did not compromise the governmental initiative to reduce the shortage of doctors for the Public Health System (SUS).
KEYWORDS:
Public health; Physicians primary care; Foreign medical graduates