The objective of this study was to analyze the implementation process of the Integrative Medicine Course I (IMC I): "Medical Concepts and Practices: Introduction to Health Promotion and Education". This discipline was elaborated on the basis of the curricular guidelines that rule medical education and integrated into the curriculum of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Rio de Janeiro State University in 2002. The present cross-sectional study was conducted in the second semester of 2004 with a sample of 75 students (80% of first year medical students). Data were collected at two moments: in the beginning (pre-evaluation) end in the end (post-evaluation) of the course. The evaluation focused the following questions all of them approached in the course: the current medical crisis and strategies to overcome it, the role of the doctor and factors influencing the health-disease process. The mean pre-evaluation score was 3.7 and the post-evaluation score 7.8. Student's t test resulted in p < 0.05. The pre and post evaluation scores show that the content of the IMC I course was satisfactorily assimilated by the students and allow concluding that the indicators used for analyzing a new discipline in the curricular reformulation process were adequate.
Health Promotion; Community Medicine; Teaching; Guidelines; Medical Education
