title: System to outline the graduate students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to evaluate the system to outline the graduate students from the Post-Graduate Programs of CAPES Medicine III area.
  
  
  METHODS
  it was analyzed the book of indicators and the Document of Area of the Post-Graduate Programs of Surgery, also checking the literature about this issue.
  
  
  RESULTS
  there was a paucity of data from most of the programs, as regards to the methods for evaluation of graduate students. The current system lacks a standard and an institutional support to outline the graduate students. In the public system there is a concentration of postgraduate students in Medicine; however, they represent a small part of those Brazilians students who finished their graduation courses in Medicine. In the current context, the quest for the post graduate courses and consequently for a research field or even a teaching career, has been replaced by the private sector jobs and the labor market, both in non-academic assistance activities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  it is imperative to establish not only science and technology innovation policies but also educational and health policies acting harmoniously and stimulating the qualification and the teaching career, improving the post-graduate courses. It is necessary to develop a single form under the institutional guidance of CAPES with the conception of a National Program for Graduate Student in order to consolidate guidelines to mapping the graduate students of post-graduate programs in surgery, in our country.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, UFRJ.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schanaider
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D013334:Students