The undergraduate course of medicine in the UFMG has been considered the best in the country by the press Editora Abril’s Guide for Students in 2006. It received the maximum grade in the National Exam for the Performance of Students (ENADE) and also in the external evaluation for teaching conditions promoted by the national Ministry of Education. The course offered at UFMG proposes a generalist and interdisciplinary formation focused on the scientific and social aspects of Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology. The undergraduate course has the minimum duration of four years and can be concluded in up to 13 semesters. Presently, 50 openings are available each year, divided in biannual ingresses. The internships start on the fifth semester and include the areas of Speech, Child and Adult Languages, Oral Motion, Child and Adult Audiology, Voice and Public Health. The Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology Outpatient Clinic, where the internships take place in the Hospital das Clínicas facilities, is composed of 11 rooms planned for patient care, which is give free of charge for the population. Six of these rooms have observation panels, where students can observe and learn from their colleagues. Faculty includes 42 professors, 19 from the School of Medicine, and 11 speech-language therapists themselves. Apart from the School of Medicine and the Outpatient Clinic, another nine academic units from the University offer Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology courses: the Biological Sciences Institute, the School of Philosophy and Human Sciences, the School of Languages and Arts, the School of Music, the School of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, the Exact Sciences Institute, the School of Dentistry, the School for Information Sciences, and the Nursing School. The UFMG School of Medicine offers many Graduate Courses stricto sensu and lato sensu with active production and steady expansion, besides Medical Residency in the Hospital das Clínicas. Ever since the creation of the first graduate course in 1968, over a thousand MA theses and about 400 PhD dissertations have been approved at the UFMG School of Medicine. Presently, there are about 420 students enrolled. Graduate courses stricto sensu in the School of Medicine include the following programs, all offered at MA and PhD levels:   Graduate courses lato sensu include five specializations in the area of Pediatrics; Gastroenterology, Pneumology, Endocrinology, Cardiology, and Adolescent Care. The Department of Preventive and Social Medicine offers many courses on the areas of Public Health, focusing on Health Services Management and Workers’ Health, among others, some of them offered by the Center for the Education in Public Health (Nescon), that also offers specialization courses in the areas of Basic Care and Family Health, and Epidemiology.