title: The Influence of an undergraduate scientific initiation programme onn the professional profile of new physicians.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This paper studies the influence of a Scientific Initiation Programme (SIP) on the professional profile of new doctors from a Brazilian university.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Evaluate fifty-two new doctors divided into two groups matched by sex, age and academic performance and differing only in participation in the SIP. Professional and socioeconomic data were collected, including schooling of parents; average income before, during and after the medical course; current professional situation; results of exams for civil servant recruitment; and titles and degrees obtained after graduation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant differences were found only in civil servant recruitment exam results (p=0.0098) and in income after graduation (p=0.02), which were both higher in the non-SIP group. Only one doctor got a M.Sc. degree after graduation, but many of them in both groups obtained technical titles, and had papers presented at congresses or published.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Apparently, taking part in a SIP led to lower income and worse civil servant recruitment exam results. However, this may only reflect a transient phase in a long-term process. New research currently under way will answer this remaining question, now that more time has elapsed since graduation. Rev Port Pneumol 2010; XVI (5): 797-808.
authors.affiliation: Especialista em Otorrinolaringologia pela Associação Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia. Professor Assistente da Universidade Estácio de Sá. Mestrando do Curso de PósGraduação Ciências Médicas da Universidade Federal fluminense/Otolaryngology Specialist, Brazilian Association of Otolaryngology. Assistant Professor, Universidade Estácio de Sá. Alumnus, Post-Graduate Course in Medical Sciences, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Electronic address: raphauff@yahoo.com.br.
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Joaquim Teles Cyrillo
authors.affiliation: Professor Adjunto da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal Fluminense. Actualmente trabalha com AIDS e Educação Médica/Full Professor, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal Fluminense.
authors.forename: Sérgio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Setúbal
authors.affiliation: Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Medicina Clínica da Faculdade de Medicina da UFF/Full Professor, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal Fluminense.
authors.forename: Cyro Teixeira
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: da Silva Júnior
authors.affiliation: Professor Adjunto de Estatística da Universidade Federal Fluminense/Full Professor of Statistics, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal Fluminense.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guillermo Coca Velarde
authors.affiliation: Médica Residente em Neurologia na Universidade Federal Fluminense/Neurology Resident, Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro, Universidade Federal Fluminense.
authors.forename: Ana Carolina Musser Tavares
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: de Mattos
authors.affiliation: Estudante de Medicina da Universidade Federal Fluminense, bolseira do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ)/Medicine student, Fluminense Federal University, CNPQ fellow.
authors.forename: Renato Bergallo
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Bezerra Cardoso
authors.affiliation: Professor Titular do Departamento de Clínica Médica da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Coordenador do Programa de Iniciação Científica do Curso de Graduação em Medicina da UFF e vice-coordenador do Programa de doutorado e mestrado em Ciências Médicas da UFF/Full Professor, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Coordinator of the Scientific Initiation Programme of the School of Medicine and Vice-coordinator of the Post-Graduate Course in Medical Sciences, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Electronic address: gilpcard@globo.com.
authors.forename: Gilberto Perez
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Cardoso
keywords: Iniciação científica; Scientific initiation; currículo médico; educação médica; medical curriculum; medical education