Perspectives on internationalization in Health Postgraduate Programs: an analysis of Capes evaluative documents

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Abstract: Objective: Analyze how the Areas of Physical Education, Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy and Occupational therapy, Nursing, Pharmacy, Medicine I, Medicine II, Medicine III, Nutrition, Dentistry and Public Health deal with internationalization in their Area Documents, as well as identify how these perspectives are translated into actions in the Evaluation Sheets. Method: Based on the Area Documents, the Content Analysis technique was used to study the principles, policies and indicators for the evaluation of the internationalization of the Evaluation Sheets and the recommendations set out in the Capes Internationalization Working Group. Results: The internationalization actions considered by the health areas have a common core, with the activities of teacher and student mobility, research projects with foreigners, attracting international funding, participation in the editorial board of foreign journals, institutional structure that enables students to participate in Postgraduate Programs; supervision with co-tutorship and double degree; participation of professors in boards and disciplines abroad, as well as in the organization of international events or to give lectures. Conclusions: It appears that the Areas analyzed consider several actions as promoting internationalization and subject to evaluation, but several components that could contribute to an effective internationalization are considered by few areas.