Partnership between universities and the local healthcare system to benefit the town of Buriticupu, a poor community in the state of Maranhão, Brazil

projectconsists of an annual expedition, each year to different partof Brazil, directed by FMUSP faculty members and executedby FMUSP medical students. Objectives are to train medi-cal students in primary healthcare to deprived communi-ties and to offer such primary healthcare as well as educa-tional lectures. The