Summary:
Thirty two final dissertations of the Master's Degree Course in Internal Medicine of the Federal University of Bahia submitted 1972 and 1981, were studied.
The following aspects in each thesis were exemined; field of study, subject, type of work and methodology. The results show the students preference for the fields of Cardiology and Nefrology and for the subjects Schistosomiasis, Chagas Disease and the clinical-laboratory method.