[The University of São Paulo, School of Nursing's history of graduate program].

It reports the history of creation and development of the graduate program at this School, as well as participation the first group of advisers, since the creation of the masters' course in 1973. Research sources were documents and data registration at the Graduate Program's secretariat, publications, and also the living memory of some faculty members. Evolutions occurred with the creation of the doctoral program, the increasing of the study fields and its expansion to other institutions outside of the São Paulo State are presented as well as the identification of the nurse-pioneers doctors who they formed giving origin to the second generation of doctors in nursing, who in their turn formed other masters and doctors of the third generation, and so successively, conforming a true genealogical tree of masters and doctors