Resgate histórico do Diretório Acadêmico de Medicina: entidade e movimento estudantil

Abstract

The Academic Directory of Medicine (DAMED) is the only entity of student representation of the Faculty of Medicine of Bahia (FMB). The history of the student organizations in FMB began in the middle of the nineteenth century as a society of academic benefit that provided services to the deprived community of the Pelourinho district in Salvador, and then as a society Alfredo Britto that possessed Characteristics of student entity. The student movement of FMB has history prior to the creation of the entity, with highlights for mobilization in the late nineteenth century. It is a descriptive historical study, with bibliographical revision of articles, books, crafts, minutes, literature published in newspapers and journals, such as access to the archive of the Academic Directory of Medicine (DAMED) with the obtaining of voluntary testimonies and involuntary in the construction of the chronology of historical facts and analysis of the student leadership in the history of FMB. Used the research procedures: Organization of historical sources, verification of the authenticity of documents, elaboration of chronology and periodization. With such methods and techniques of historical research, it is expected that the findings demonstrate the role of the student movement in the history of the School of the mate of Brazilian medicine.