The Project for evaluating change trends in the undergraduate course of Brazilian medical schools proposed by the Evaluation Commission of Medical Schools (Caem) of the Brazilian Association of Medical Education (Abem) arose from the need to assess and follow up the changes occurring in the medical schools after national and international movements that recommended that the education of the medical professional should be adapted to the current health demands, especially in Brazil after the homologation of the National Curricular Guidelines for the medical undergraduate course. Composed by professors, students and specialists in the subject, the Caem discussed and approved the project based on the thesis that adopted five relevant conceptual axes in medical education - working world, pedagogical project, pedagogical approach, sceneries of practice and teaching development. The project proposes a work in three steps to be carried out in the schools: 1) application of the self-assessment instrument with analysis of data by the Commission and feedback to the schools; 2) approximation of change trends pointed out by the schools and identification of involved social actors as well as construction of indicators allowing to verify and follow up the changes, and 3) systematization and presentation of data and elaboration of the report according to the principles of National System for Evaluation of Higher Education (Sinaes). This article shows the details of the project and the resulting adhesion of the schools when it was launched in 2006.
Medical Education; educational measurement; organizational Innovation; teaching care integration service; faculty medical
