Abstract
Objective: This article identifies the inclusion of teaching activities for the health care of traditional populations, in undergraduate courses in medicine of universities and colleges of the Northern region of Brazil in order to mediate reflections on the subject. Methods: A longitudinal, mixed research with data collection investigation with a multiple case study approach, using a database of the Ministry of Education and Culture, base year 2018. For the construct, descriptors were defined to be searched in the matrices and menus of pedagogical political projects. The basic parameter for inclusion of the data was delimited in terms: traditional populations; Amazon populations; indigenous health; health of ethnic groups and remaining populations of quilombo in the texts of the pedagogical project (curricular matrices and menus). Results: Twenty courses were identified, of which nine were public and eleven were private, of which only three presented disciplines within the investigated trait, being these taught in the state of Amazonas and Acre. Conclusion: The absence of curricular subjects on traditional populations in medical curricula is notorious. The results also allow us to understand that there is a depletion of social and humanistic contents in the basic subjects in most curricula.