The Graduate Program in Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP) is located in the Southeast region of the country. Our program belongs to the area of Medicine III according to CAPES evaluation. It was the second program in this area created in the country. The Program got grade six in the last quadrennial evaluation by CAPES.

Created in 1970, the program completed 50 years in 2020. It had its first graduates in 1973 (four Masters), and in 1974 graduated its first doctor. By the end of 2020, we had 404 master’s graduates, 205 doctoral graduates, and 19 direct doctoral graduates. The direct doctorate has been stimulated more recently to consider graduate students without the master’s degree with previous research experience from scientific initiation, graduate programs (mainly medical residency), or master’s students with academic performance higher than expected. Most of our graduates develop teaching and research activities in various educational and research institutions throughout the country. In 2003, the program that was only offered medical doctors specialized in gynecology and obstetrics began to offer vacancies also for medical doctors of other specialties and non-doctors with the option of training in Reproductive Biology.

In 2004, this new option corresponded to 8.3% of the applications; from 2016 to 2019, this student profile made up 62% of the enrolled students. This training for other professionals strengthened the lines of research in the multidisciplinary field, with scientific production in other areas, integration with professors/researchers who began to compose the examining committees, and research partnerships in related areas, such as physical education, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, pharmacy, nursing and departments of basic disciplines (biology and biomedicine), among others. This group of students is composed of medical doctors of other specialties, biologists, biomedical technicians, physiotherapists, nutritionists, physical educators, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, occupational therapists, and, eventually, philosophers, dentists, and lawyers.