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In medical practice, situations in which airway handling is necessary are very frequent, such as, for example, in cases of cardiorespiratory arrest, trauma, loss of consciousness and respiratory failure. Having specific training for this management, knowing how to use the necessary devices, as well as recognizing predictive factors for difficult airways, and having the ability to act on its possible complications are fundamental requirements for the physician's good performance.This need is even more important in relation to newly graduated physicians, who, for the most part, will start their professional lives in urgency/emergency units, services in which situations that require airway handling are even more frequent. The training offered by the undergraduate course is shown to be elementary. This study seeks to outline the instruction profile of students in the last year of the Medicine course at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM) on airway management. It is a way of making a diagnosis of the training of students in airway offered by this institution, enabling interventions to solve possible deficiencies, such as theoretical/practical complements, contributing to the improvement of the training of future doctors and, consequently, bringing an impact positive for health services, benefiting patients. For this, we proposed a cross-sectional study, with a questionnaire applied to students. MethodsA cross-sectional observational population study was carried out with students in the last year of the Medicine Course at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM). As an assessment Knowledge about airway approach in medicine academicsVolume 13 Issue 4 -2021