https://www.interface.org.br eISSN 1807-5762 Articles Vargas AFM, Vargas DS, Campos MM, Caetano RC. The More Doctors Program and the Curricular Guidelines for Medical courses: a comparative analysis among higher education institutions. Interface (Botucatu). 2019; 23(Supl. 1): e170903 https://doi.org/10.1590/Interface.170903 The More Doctors Program and the Curricular Guidelines for Medical courses: a comparative analysis among higher education institutions (a) Pós-graduanda do Programa de Pós- Graduação em Sociologia Política (pós-doutorado), Laboratório de Gestão e Políticas Públicas, Centro de Ciências do Homem (CCH), Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF). Avenida Alberto Lamego, 2000, Parque Califórnia. Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brasil, 28013-602. (b) Pós-graduando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Políticas Sociais (doutorado), Laboratório de Estudo do Espaço Antrópico, CCH, UENF. Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brasil. (c) Laboratório de Gestão e Políticas Públicas, CCH, UENF. Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brasil. (d) Laboratório de Estudo do Espaço Antrópico, CCH, UENF. Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brasil. The article was constructed from an exploratory, documentary research and investigates the curricular matrices of the medicine courses of three higher education institutions, trying to identify the weight they give to a more humanistic education of their students, in accordance with what is recommended by the More Doctors Program (PMM). Two Brazilian institutions were examined, one public and one private, both in Rio de Janeiro, and also a third institution, located in Cuba. In the education of Cuban doctors, importance is given to disciplines categorized as "Public Health Education". Contrary to this design, the education of Brazilian doctors refects the confict between teaching and the reality of the country, visible in the difculty in educating doctors to work in primary care and in retaining them in the most remote places of Brazil. Keywords: Medical education. Public policies. Public Health. Annabelle de Fátima Modesto Vargas (a) <annamodesto@hotmail.com> Diogo de Souza Vargas (b) <diogosvargas@yahoo.com.br> Mauro Macedo Campos (c) <mauromcampos@yahoo.com.br> Rodrigo da Costa Caetano (d) <profrodrigo@uenf.com> 1/15