“…However, at the time the Flexner model was proposed, APS was not yet on the stage (BOELEN, 2002). Automatically imported, without properly taking into account the reality of family health services, of changes in the epidemiological profile of the population and of health needs of individuals and communities (PAGLIOSA;DA ROS, 2008), the Flexner Report increased the demand for exams, in the context of a disease-oriented medical assistance, provided to populations anxious to have their problems solved using propaedeutic resources (MELO;CECÍLIO;ANDREAZZA, 2017;YOU;LEVINSON;LAUPACIS, 2009). The situation is even more serious due to the decontextualized, fragmented and deficient teaching on adequate requests for exams during medical education, at both the college (BORÉM ET AL., 2013;WILSON, 2010) and the university (WILSON, 2010).…”