EXPERIENCE REPORT OF LECTURES PREPARATION ABOUT CURRENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

Introduction and Objectives Among the current heath scenario it’s possible to witness the appearing of epidemics and the discovery of diseases, being important that new professionals, including graduating ones, are fully updated about the most relevant topics. This projects aims to report the approach of Ebola Virus used to Medical Students among the epidemics in 2014. Methods In September, 2014, few students had actual clinical knowledge about current Ebola´s rising epidemics. To improve this situation, LIBIM, Medical Biology study group, conducted a Lecture, then called “What do you know about Ebola?”, inviting two Infectologysts from the University of Fortaleza to discuss the disease with 80 Medical Students. Results and Conclusion: Ebola´s Haemorragic Fever Lecture had a bigger audience than other clinical sessions conducted by LIBIM, due to the severity and lack of common knowledge of the new disease that has a challenging transmission, besides its fast spread. Considering those factors and the risk of arriving in the brazilian territory, the students, that are constantly in biologically hazardous environments and act as health information spreaders, have felt defied to learn the standard procedures concerning the disease. The discussed topics were described as “enlightening" by the participating students, considering that the debaters valued not only Ebola´s clinical expression, but it´s real epidemiologic situation in Brazil and Worldwide. Considering the exposed, the conducted lectures regarding the Ebola epidemics, have become essencial to enhance students knowledge about the disease and to spread its right prevention and management about this epidemics.