50th Anniversary of the Graduate Program in Nursing, University of São Paulo School of Nursing

Abstract

The Graduate Program in Nursing (PPGE), of the University of São Paulo School of Nursing (EEUSP), celebrates its 50 th anniversary in 2023!The creation of PPGE is the beginning of the strict sensu Graduate Program of EEUSP, as well as the beginning of post-graduation level in the Nursing field in Brazil (1,2).In November 1972, the first meeting of the EEUSP's Graduate Commission was held, with the pioneering Professors Wanda de Aguiar Horta, Leda Ulson Mattos, and Glete de Alcântara, the latter elected President of the Commission. The master's course began in the following year. The first dissertation was defended at the PPGE-EEUSP in 1975, with the title "Influence of the level of training of the nursing staff and the checking time of manual counting of arterial pulse frequencies," authored by Magali Roseira Boemer, later Professor at the University of São Paulo Ribeirão Preto School of Nursing.PPGE-EEUSP doctoral program began only in 1989 as one of the first courses PhD programs in Brazil. The first thesis was defended in 1993, with the title "Construção e Validação de um programa sobre comunicação não verbal para enfermeiros," authored by Maria Júlia Paes da Silva, later Professor at EEUSP. In the same year, the first foreign candidate (Chile) was Luz Angélica Muñoz Gonzalez, with the thesis "A doença veio para ficar," an ethnographic study of the experience of people with diabetes. Doctoral graduates from PPGE have created many other graduate programs in Brazil ever since, which denotes one of its strengths, that is the placement of its alumni in several public and private universities across Brazil. Furthermore, EEUSP supervisors conceived four other graduate programs at this institution.Since then, more than 1000 masters and 350 doctors have been trained in the Program! These graduates founded other Graduate Programs in Nursing, including at USP itself, in various parts of Brazil, and in other Latin American countries.