MEDICAL TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS DEVELOPMENT.

Introduction and Objective: The undergraduate medical training unfolds, according to the National curriculum guidelines, in different areas. The management in health is the one that aims at training the students to be capable of understanding the principles, guidelines, and policies of the health system, and to participate in management and administration actions, through dimensions like the exercise of leadership, focus of this study. The study’s objective is analyzing the formative process of a degree course in Medicine with emphasis on leadership skills. Methods: Case study on the training offered by the Medicine course of a public University of Fortaleza-CE. Documentary analysis of Pedagogical political project (PPP), of course and Education plans of the DCN, as well as semi-structured interviews with 29 students from boarding school, were the means of data collection, among which, was dialogue, identifying distances and approaches and the insights that emerged from the interviews, all this focused to the responsibility of leadership. Ethics approval of opinion No 388,536. Results and Conclusion: Few students perceived the management area as a potential action field, and most showed no affinity for such. Some testimonials gave prominence to the discipline of public health policies, which offers a theoretical-practical contribution that optimizes the development of leadership ability, with problem situations to be analyzed and solved in a teamwork. The leadership skills must be exercised on the horizontality of interpersonal relationships that involves commitment and empathy, but this development is still a challenge for the training of future doctors.