O "viveiro" de Baeta Vianna: a formação de médicos cientistas na Faculdade de Medicina de Belo Horizonte (1925-1949)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the context of training of students of Prof. José Baeta Vianna (1894-1967), at the School of Medicine of Belo Horizonte, from 1925 to 1949. This is considered the first cycle of Baeta Vianna's laboratory, between his return from the United States (USA), where he was a scholarship holder of Foundation Rockefeller, until he licensed to be Secretary of Health of Minas Gerais. From his internship, he brought the foundations for the constitution of the laboratory, also known as “Baeta Vianna's vivarium”. To understand the fame received by the laboratory, oral and written documents will be analyzed, especially from former students of Baeta Vianna reporting the importance of the laboratory in their training as physicians and scientists.