The Minas Gerais State Research Foundation (Fapemig) is the only agency that promotes scientific research, technological development, and innovation in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Due to the scarcity of studies on scientific production and its relationship to project funding by Fapemig, the current study aims to identify the scientific outputs in the field of medicine (national and international scientific articles published in indexed journals, presentation of scientific abstracts at national and international congresses, and training of qualified human resources - supervision of monographs and Master's and PhD theses), based on research funding through the Fapemig call for projects. The agency's archives were used as the data source to report on the characteristics of projects approved for funding, as well as on the resulting medical scientific productivity from 1986 to 2002. During this period, Fapemig approved 183 projects in the field of medicine. Of these, six were removed from the study, since their coordinators' CVs could not be located in the Lattes database, for reasons such as retirement. The 177 projects that were analyzed had 118 different researchers as coordinators (63.2% males and 36.7% females). One hundred percent of the approved projects were from public institutions, including universities and government agencies. There were a total of 630 scientific outputs, the most common being presentation of papers at scientific events (41.13%), followed by supervision of undergraduate monographs and graduate theses (29.57%). The least frequent indicator was publication of national and international scientific articles (29.26%). There was a balance between Brazilian and international periodicals. The former included Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, and Cadernos de Saúde Pública. Foreign periodicals included Journal of Clinical Pathology and Journal of Medical Microbiology.
Medicine; Medical research; Medical Education
