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Algumas considerações sobre a pirâmide invertida da formação médica brasileira e suas conseqüências para o treinamento em cardiologia

2005; Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC); Volume: 85; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0066-782x2005001900010

1678-4170

Pedro José Negreiros de Andrade,

Health, Nursing, Elderly Care

Just over six years ago, Brazilian medical residency underwent an important change of paradigm. This change, determined by the National Medical Residency Commission, was the establishment of a rule calling for two years of prior general residency as a prerequisite for all of the so-called subspecialties of internal medicine, including cardiology. This ruling amounted to the implementation in Brazil of a postgraduate model inspired on American training programs that require not only two, but three years of generalist residency training prior to acceptance in the so-called “clinical subspecialties”