Brock Luana, Cunha Edileuza, Tavares José Roberto, Gonçalves Iran, Paola Angelo A V de, Moisés Valdir, Carvalho Antonio Carlos
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Arq Bras Cardiol. 2010 Apr;94(4):500-6. doi: 10.1590/s0066-782x2010005000015. Epub 2010 Mar 26.
Stricto sensu post-graduation in Brazil was implemented in 1965 to increase university professors' teaching quality and to prepare full, independent researchers. The brazilian share in ISI publications has increased significantly since then, but little information is available on postgraduate quality.
To review 29 years of the postgraduate programs in cardiology at the Federal University of São Paulo and to analyze master and doctorate graduates' characteristics regarding their origin, publications and subsequent career.
We developed a questionnaire to evaluate 168 postgraduates who produced 196 theses (116 master's and 80 doctorate) over the period 1975-2004 and contacted 95.9% of them. Information on publications were obtained through the usual science databases.
30% of graduates came from the North-Northeast-Central West regions and only 50% returned to their original area. Mean age at admission was 32.5 and 34.9 years old for master and doctorate students, respectively; average program duration was, respectively, 39.0 and 43.2 months and approximately 50% went through it without any grants. Thesis publications throughout these 29 years averaged 36.5% for master's and 61.9% for doctorate, but any publishing afterwards occurred in 70.2 and 90.6% of the cases. The average impact factor of the published theses was 1.3 for master's degree and 3.1 for doctorate programs with 65.5% and 87.5% of Qualis A, respectively. Currently, there are graduates in 17 states of the country and 12 have became full professors.
Although the stricto sensu program, especially the master's degree program, has many areas that need improvement, they seem to be contributing to improve professional quality and the number of brazilian indexed publications.
巴西于1965年实施了严格意义上的研究生教育，以提高大学教授的教学质量，并培养全面、独立的研究人员。从那时起，巴西在ISI出版物中的份额显著增加，但关于研究生质量的信息却很少。
回顾圣保罗联邦大学29年的心脏病学研究生项目，并分析硕士和博士毕业生的来源、出版物及后续职业的特点。
我们设计了一份问卷，以评估1975年至2004年期间撰写了196篇论文（116篇硕士论文和80篇博士论文）的168名研究生，并联系了其中95.9%的人。通过常用的科学数据库获取出版物信息。
30%的毕业生来自北部-东北部-中西部地区，只有50%的人回到了他们原来的地区。硕士和博士研究生入学时的平均年龄分别为32.5岁和34.9岁；平均课程时长分别为39.0个月和43.2个月，约50%的人在没有任何资助的情况下完成了学业。在这29年中，硕士论文的发表率平均为36.5%，博士论文为61.9%，但之后仍有70.2%和90.6%的人发表了论文。已发表论文的平均影响因子，硕士学位论文为1.3，博士学位论文为3.1，分别有65.5%和87.5%的论文属于Qualis A级。目前，该国17个州都有该校的毕业生，其中12人成为了正教授。
尽管严格意义上的项目，尤其是硕士学位项目，有许多需要改进的地方，但它们似乎有助于提高专业素质和巴西被索引出版物的数量。
