Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
The article had the goal of evidencing and analyzing the changes regarding the expectations involving becoming a doctor throughout Medicine
undergraduate studies. Between April and June 2018, Medicine students enrolled in the first, fifth, eighth and tenth stages of a public higher education institution in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, took part in the study. After a questionnaire was applied, we analyzed 145 answers regarding the following question: Why did you choose to take Medicine course? Through content analysis, the data analysis evidenced a growing presence, throughout the course, of what we call ‘financial return,’ and, inversely, a decreasing interest in ‘helping others.’ The results, which were analyzed based on theories that approach the socialization and identity development processes, revealed that, in spite the fact that they are inserted into different sociocultural realities, the individuals find themselves involved with rituals and common stereotypes that are socially arbitrated by patterns that were socially and historically developed by the process of constitution of the medical identity.
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