[Graduate course at the Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu-UNESP: survey among former students].

With the objective of evaluating teaching at the Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, UNESP, questionnaires were sent to 605 ex students and with return of 245 answers. The medical course was considered good, Pediatrics and Medicine obtaining the best marks, the evaluation of Medicine, however decreased among the more recently graduated. Surgery, gynecology-obstetrics and public health had a medium evaluation. Ex students were secure in diagnosis, therapeutics and evaluation of laboratory and other subsidiary texts and techniques but criticized the training in more elaborate medical procedures, essential for medical practice. The fragmentation of the curriculum into specialties was also criticized. Many of the ex students suggested as necessary measures of improvement: integration of specialties in the five basic areas of medicine and utilization of the different health services of the city for teaching.