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The ANASEM Exam
And the Advocacy Process by IFMSA Brazil Lucas Martins Teixeira & Mário Fernando Dantas Gomes & Felipe Augusto Ferreira Siquelli IFMSA - Brazil nome@ifmsabrazil.org On April 1st of this year, the Brazilian government set up, based on the 2013’s brazilian “More Doctors” law: National Serial Evaluation of Medical Students (ANASEM in Portuguese), that is a text to be realized in the end of the second, fourth and sixth years of medical course, to evaluate the quality of medical education. The original law’s text preview an exam to measure the quality of Brazilian medical schools, with an aim of upgrading the education system. However, without any prior discussion, the Brazilian government established that the new evidence would have the right to retain a student’s graduation, depending on the results of their participation in the last year. The decision caused great discussion among medical students across the country, and several questions were raised in the process, on various issues like the process, frequency and situation of the student loan payment (large government stimulus policy in the last decade) like freezing the graduation, the possible repercussions of underperforming in the exam, minimum acceptable score and several other parameters. Considering that the beginning of the application process should occur early in the second half of this year, such large gaps denote the apparent lack of planning and therefore government commitment to medical education in the country. Since then, IFMSA Brazil, through its Standing Committee on Medical Education, has articulated to enable the expression of student opinion, involving the entire community of Local Coordinators and 83 affiliated educational institutions. 72 73
broad acceptance and an overwhelming response, enabling students to voice their thoughts and opinions. The online discussions also made way for contrary and favourable arguments on the topic and eventually, the issue was discussed at the 49th General Assembly by the representative of the Federal Council of Medicine, who attended the meeting to specifically address our issue. Enabling voice to numerous lines of thought and taking into account contrary and favorable arguments, including the participation of representative of the Federal Council of Medicine in 49th AG, specifically to discuss the issue. The results of this effort were outstanding. There was reform of the Policy Statement that was the subject, in addition to disclosure of a note, which was publicly issued with the position established by the community of Local Coordinators, compliance with which is that the punitive never benefit society, as transfers the student an essentially structural accountability is impossible to repair individually configured as a measure stopgap, innocuous and especially diverting attention from the only possible solution: investment, planning and dedication to improving the medium and long term graduation. The public notice of IFMSA Brazil, so far has reached 27.180 views and has gone to become one of the most important documents in the academic, medical and social development of Brazil.
A task force was set up to summon the local coordinators, decide a theme and promote online discussions based on the same, so that so that it formulated an official position to be enacted by all delegates at the 49th General Assembly, which was to occur 20 to 24 April. Within a short span of time, the mobilization received medical students worldwide | AM 2016, Mexico