Abstract
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of papers that meet the recommendations of the international medical journals committee. Methods: Cross-sectional study, in an institution in Pará, based on the availability of the studies presented in the scientific days of the medical course, between the years 2015-2018. The studies were evaluated for the recommendations proposed by the ICMJE, classified as appropriate or inappropriate. Results: We identified 79 scientific research projects from the period 2015 to 2018. The results for the field "adjustment to the heading" add up to a total of 40 studies considered complete (50.6%); in the domain “adequate use of descriptors” 56 (71.4%) works were defined as adequate; for the domain “cohesion between objective and conclusion” 24 (28.6%) studies were classified as adequate; while the criterion "Summary properly divided into items", 45 (57.1%) of the works were classified as adequate. Conclusion: Most of the sample adequately registered the health subject descriptors, followed by the description of the title met by slightly more than half of the studies, while the minority followed the orientation for structuring the abstract.