Family and Comunity Medicine League Like Aplication Tool of New Brazilian National Curricular Guidelines of Medicine Course

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During October 26th and 27th, the Student Council Adolfo Lutzacademic institution consisting of medicine undergraduates -held the XXVII Medical Academic Congress of Unicamp (in Portuguese, CoMAU). It took place in the School of Medical Sciences (in Portuguese, FCM) of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), considered by national and international rankings, the best university in Latin America for two consecutive years. According to the current dean of FCM, Prof. Dr. Luiz Carlos Zeferino, " […] we occupy the first position in rankings that evaluate education quality. This is very relevant […] when you look at FCM route, you start seeing its potential from wider points of view, such as from social policies and from academic and professional schooling. Our potential is wide". The organization of CoMAU is annually tutored by Prof. Dr. Egberto Ribeiro Turato, professor of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry Department of FCM, and it is the biggest event held by medicine students, directed at undergraduates, graduates, residents and other professionals of health sciences. The Congress consisted of lectures about obesity, feared diseases nowadays, children health, chronic pain and death, and also workshops on clinical abilities, ultrasound, basic life support, airway handling in emergency, trauma and obstetric emergency.The event was opened by the lecture "Drug use today and its consequences for human being and society" given by the illustrious historian Prof. Dr. Leandro Karnal to a public of more than 300 people. "I thank the students, mainly, that make possible the survival of plural debate, controversy and democratic, which is origin and shelter of every truth idea. While it still exists, we will be able to have essential insights, so let us seize this moment, now" declared the lecturer. "I always had the dream of studying at this university. This moment is very important to me. Unicamp is the greatest university in Latin America and our challenge has been to organize a congress as great as this university", said the 3 rd year medicine undergraduate, Arthur José Roque Cruz. He is the vice president of the Student Council Adolfo Lutz and president of XXVII CoMAU's Organizer Commission. "The undergraduate course in medicine reached 330 applicants per place at the college entrance exam. Since the beginning, we have excellent students", added Marcelo Knobel, rector of the University of Campinas. In 2018, CoMAU had a record number of participants presenting scientific projects. There were 129 projects enrolled, 57,32% more than in 2017. "The current edition focused on a high-quality scientific program, which resulted in great success of public and elevated number of scientific projects" concluded Zeferino, congratulating the Congress organizers, especially Diego Modesto Alves and Isabella Batistela Inhesta Sacho, directors of Research in the Student Council and also of the Scientific Committee of CoMAU 2018. Pictures of the event can be seen in: https://www.facebook.com/comau.unicamp/?ref=bookmarks.