[Rural Internship in the professional training of pharmacists to serve in the Brazilian Unified Health System].

In order to comply with Brazilian Syllabus requirements, some schools of Pharmacy included Rural Internships (RI) in the curriculum as a way of familiarizing students with the Unified Health System (SUS), thereby permitting the interaction of the students with pharmaceutical practices. This work assesses the knowledge about SUS and pharmaceutical activities of students who have taken the RI subject at the schools of Pharmacy of the UFMG. The information gathered was acquired by means of Focus Groups (FG), one before and another immediately after the field experience.

[Analysis of the information on visceral leishmaniasis available through Brazilian portals of the worldwide web--internet].

With the aim of analyzing the adequacy of the information on visceral leishmaniasis that is available through Brazilian portals, a survey was conducted through a search portal, with selection and analysis of electronic page content. Twenty-four pages with informative purposes were identified, of which eight belonged to government bodies, 10 were commercial and six were classified as others. Using a systematized analysis form, the content of topics considered essential, relating to transmission, reservoirs, control and disease, was evaluated.