Professional Practice of Medicine by Students

Abstract:

The practical activities carried out by medical students are indispensable and should be applied in academical institutions. When these students seek other services to exercise the medical profession, they infringe the penal and the medical ethics codes. We aim to identify and analyze the professional activities in the medical area exercised by the students to medicine of the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) out of this institution. A questionnaire was applied to 173 students of the 6th to the 12th periods, of the Medical School of UFU. It was verified that 23,70% of the students exercised the medical profession out of the institution. During the last year of the course, 63,16% have already done it. All the students rendered paid services, inmost in public hospitals (48,78%), and 21,96% frequently accomplish them. Also, 46,34% of the activities were indicated by formed doctors, connivent with such situation; 31,71% never tell the patient that he/she isn’t a formed physician; 39,03% consider it totally anti-ethics and 68,29% illegal, but even so they continue to practice them. These preoccupying data show it is indispensable that professors, CFM and students should act with the objective of correcting this misconduct.Introdução

Descriptors:
Education, medical; Students, medical; Professional practice; Ethics, medical