Experiences of disabled students in undergraduate medical education.

Purpose: Since people with disabilities (PwD) are underrepresented in medical education, the authors of this article conducted a qualitative research in the form of an in-depth interview with students with disabilities from a medical school in Brazil, to characterize their experiences in medical education and identify barriers and facilitators to inclusion.

Materials And Methods: Participants were recruited by snowball sampling, signed an informed consent form, and completed a socioeconomic questionnaire. They were interviewed individually with open-ended questions so that they could develop narratives.

[Implementation of a residency program in anesthesiology in the Northeast of Brazil: impact on work processes and professional motivation].

Background And Objectives: Understand, through the theory of social representations, the influence exerted by the establishment a residency program in anesthesiology on anesthetic care and professional motivation in a tertiary teaching hospital in the Northeast of Brazil.

Method: Qualitative methodology. The theoretical framework comprised the phenomenology and the Social Representation Theory.