Bahiana holds the XNUMXst Scientific Initiation Seminar

Students of undergraduate courses at Bahiana members of the Scientific Initiation Program participated, on August 2, in the XNUMXst Scientific Initiation Seminar that took place at the Cabula Academic Unit. The meeting was attended by the director of Bahiana, Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Carvalho Soliani, from the Postgraduate, Research and Extension coordinator, Prof. Dr. Kátia Nunes Sá, from the coordinator of the Center for Biotechnology, Bioprospecting and Intellectual Property, Prof. Dr. Diego Menezes, Coordinator of the Institutional Program for Scientific Initiation Scholarships (PIBIC) at Bahiana, Prof. Dr. Lucíola Crisóstomo, in addition to guiding professors who are part of the undergraduate and graduate staff.

According to Prof. Dr. Kátia Sá, PIBIC in Bahiana already has an annual journey that takes place within the schedule of the Scientific and Cultural Exhibition of Bahiana and that this year it reaches its 12th edition. "The Research Advisory Committee (CAP) identified the need to hold this seminar to integrate professors and students from different courses, motivate new scholarship holders to better understand the function of PIBIC, its selection process, bring information and rules to be complied with and formalize the signing of the grant term”, he explains. She also informed how the seminar will become annual and emphasized that all scientific initiation scholarship holders should participate. "Now, all scientific initiation scholarship holders will participate in this seminar that will probably take place in July and in the PIBIC Journey, in the first year of the scholarship, to present the project in the form of a poster and the PIBIC Journey, in the year of conclusion, to present the results obtained”.

For Kátia Sá, the participation of undergraduate students in scientific initiation programs stimulates the production of knowledge. "At Bahiana, the research activity that involves the production of knowledge, rather than simply absorbing the knowledge generated in large universities, has been widely encouraged, especially in extension activities, which involve assistance and research in clinics, hospitals and communities. Thus, the research is articulated with the extension and the student learns his technical craft making changes in the reality of the communities involved. The main support for the development of the undergraduate in health at our institution, with regard to research, involves the scientific initiation program (PIC), integrating undergraduate and non-scholarship holders, students and professors of the strcito sensu postgraduate programs and patients with harm to human health”.

According to Prof. Dr. Diego Menezes, who gave the opening lecture of the event, “the seminar had as its main objective to make a presentation to new research students, as well as to discuss related processes: the mentor-advising relationship and the importance of insertion in research as undergraduates. Participation in scientific initiation programs is essential to provide opportunities for the insertion of students in the scientific world from an early age, so that, consequently, professionals are trained capable of generating innovative processes and products to meet the needs of society, especially in the health area that is the main vocation of Bahiana".

He positively evaluated the seminar, which had a large number of students and professors. “It was a very rich moment, in which we had the spontaneous participation of students in the oral presentations carried out by the participating teachers, not only about the technical content, but also about the professional trajectory of each one”.

The program included presentations by professors Marta Menezes, Ana Marice Ladeia, Marcos Almeida, Luis Claudio Lemos, who also participated in a final colloquium, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Kátia Sá. Also present were professors who are members of the Research Advisory Committee, Silvia Reis, Patrícia Lordêlo Garboggini and Marilda Castelar, as well as representatives of the Research Ethics Committee and the Ethics Committee on the use of Animals (CEUA), as well as coordinators of undergraduate courses and research centers.

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