The scientific integrity issue in health graduate courses in Brazil

Abstract

This article presents a survey that aims at knowing the concern of health graduate course in formation of new researchers, including teachings on scientific integrity. The method used was the survey on 125 homepages of Brazilian graduate courses in health in which features related to scientific integrity were analyzed. More than one subject per course was analyzed, totalizing 183. The results show that out of evaluated programs, 59.5% belonged to medical area, and 97.6% had homepages available in the web, but not all made information related to the topic available. From it, one concludes that scientific honesty, fundamental in order to academic research gain credibility and scientific value, it is not yet a priority for teaching institution that, jointly with the scientific community, has an essential role in training ethically responsible scientists.