Abstract
The article analyzes the tradition in medical and scientific teaching that was established at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz starting in 1908, introducing an innovative standard in training researchers and public health workers that combined teaching and research activities. Forerunner of the university model, this tradition came up against the question of what social role the institute should play in the new institutional organization of public health and education implemented during the Vargas era: should the Institute serve public health or adopt a university-like format?
Highlights
The article analyzes the tradition in medical and scientific teaching that was established at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz starting in 1908, introducing an innovative standard in training researchers and public health workers that combined teaching and research activities
Forerunner of the university model, this tradition came up against the question of what social role the institute should play in the new institutional organization of public health and education implemented during the Vargas era: should the Institute serve public health or adopt a university-like format? Keywords: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz ; teaching; public health; university; Brazil
A t the dawn of the last century, the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, or IOC) – made part of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in 1970 – broke new ground with the establishment of a tradition of medical and scientific teaching in microbiology and tropical medicine. In institutionalizing this type of teaching, the IOC inaugurated a new standard in Brazil, one that combined the theoretical education of researchers and specialists with practical training
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Professor and researcher at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz. Av. A t the dawn of the last century, the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, or IOC) – made part of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in 1970 – broke new ground with the establishment of a tradition of medical and scientific teaching in microbiology and tropical medicine In institutionalizing this type of teaching, the IOC inaugurated a new standard in Brazil, one that combined the theoretical education of researchers and specialists with practical training. This influence was explicit in Chagas Filho’s initiatives to transform the IOC into a university institute, a goal that even led him to architect its temporary integration with the University of Brazil in 1946 He exerted an indirect influence, introducing to the Biophysics Institute’s organizational model the university standard of research coupled with teaching, in counterpoint to the tradition at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute
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