Summary
The article describes and analizes Rural lntership (Internato Rural da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) course. Criated in 1978, the stage, with obligatory character, has propitiated to around six thousand medicine students a autonomous experience at more one hundred and fifty municipalities of Minas Gerais state. lts course coincide with the major sanitary movements toward to a efficient and democratic system of health.
Keywords:
Rural Internship; Medical education; Health policies