Ligas Acadêmicas de Medicina: extensão das ciências médicas à sociedade

• Autor(a) principal: Hamamoto Filho, Pedro Tadao [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Venditti, Vinicius Cunha [UNESP], Oliveira, Cristiano Claudino [UNESP], Vicentini, Henrique Claudio [UNESP], Schellini, Silvana Artioli [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://ojs.unesp.br/index.php/revista_proex/article/view/366; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/141060
• topic: Community institutional relations; Medicine; Students, medical; Education, medical; Relaciones comunidad-institución; Medicina; Estudiantes de Medicina; Educación médica; Relações comunidade-instituição; Medicina; Estudantes de Medicina; Educação médica

Academic Leagues (AL) are student organizations directed led to study a specific knowledge area in order to help solvinge social demands. The contact of students with the community allows them to act as agents of social change and gives them the opportunity to attend professional queries. Botucatu Medical School from São Paulo State University has 17 AL which develop various activities in Botucatu and the surrounding region. This insertion of AL in the community may contribute in changing the relationship between universities and society. AL, however, cannot be scientific societies for precocious students’ specialization. To avoid this risk, AL must be evaluated to ensure that teaching, research and university extension are linked. This waySo, AL may contribute to the improvement of Brazilian Unified Health System. In this article we present ALs’ activities as examples of scientific knowledge in service of society. We also defend AL as ways of improving community institutional relations, and not reinforcement of university’s bias.