Abstract
Objective: To demonstrate how the 2014 National Curricular Guidelines (NCGs) was applied on the Mental Health obligatory curricular internship, on a Medical University. Bibliographic review: Brazil occupies, actually, the 5th on the biggest depression rate ranking around the world and a 23.93% incidence of any kind of anxiety disorders among Brazilian citizens. Therefore, new strategies have been searched to cope with the high amount of psychic illness on that population. Thus, a lot of changes on the medical graduation process, have been necessary. So, the Brazilian medical education bases, that until then was regulated and structured by the 2001 NCGs, was substituted by the 2014 NCGs. Final Considerations: Psychic illness, which was previously underestimated, became a priority on the medical assistance. Therefore, it is essential that the medical graduation process approaches the mental health care qualifying the new physicians. The article aims to help other medical universities to build their own Mental Health programs based on the 2014 NCGs.
