Trajetória de um imigrante no curso de medicina da Universidade Federal de São Carlos 2016 - 2023

Abstract

The course completion work aims to make a critical-reflective analysis from the context and trajectory of an African immigrant, born in Angola, in the city of Luanda, who moved to Brazil at the end of his childhood, on 06/06/1999 to the city of Rio de Janeiro. This change was motivated by the situation of the armed conflict, which hit his country in the post-independence period from Portugal (1482-1975). Ondjaki, born on the outskirts of Luanda, dreamed of studying medicine since he was a child, after having witnessed family generations without the mirror of higher education or training in the field of medicine, a completely remote condition in the context of the civil war in Angola (1975-2002). Upon arriving in the city of Rio de Janeiro, he brings with him memories of his mother and sisters (Carla Marina and Edna Patricia), hugging and crying at the moment of his departure for Brazil on a Sunday morning. Continuing his studies in the city of São Paulo, he graduated as a nursing technician at Senac – Vila Prudente and, as if that were not enough, he felt the need to take on the mission of studying medicine to meet some of his family and ethnic concerns. and community. Upon entering the Medicine course at the Federal University of São Carlos at the age of 36, he realizes, according to the Pedagogical Political Project - 2007 - UFSCar Medicine, that the course is known for the integration between the world of work and learning that is expressed in the process dialogic and competence for the medical professional to be formed in this university by the formation.