The investigation analyzed the concept and experience of violence among the last year academics of the courses of graduation in nursing, medicine and dentistry of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. It was an exploratory descriptive research with quali-quantitative boarding, developed with 175 academics. The proposal was identify what are the academics understanding about violence, which are their personal experiences on the subject and what kind of boarding was given to this question during the undergraduate course. The violence definitions are hardly related to a technique sight and prioritize the suffered physical damages. Faced with a violence situation the students had reproduced the feelings of fear, impotence, anger and indignation; they did not react when witnessing such acts and showed that the health professional does not identify situations of violence when providing superficial assistance to victims; concluding, they consider that the issue is not sufficiently discussed during the academic course.
Violence; Health; Higher education; Professional formation