Table 2

Master’s and PhD degrees of family and community physicians in Brazil, December 2018

Characteristics	Master’s degree						PhD
	Academic		Professional		Total		PhD
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Year of degree
1979–1998	48	8.7	–	–	48	6.4	8	4.7
1999–2003	61	11.0	2	1.0	63	8.4	21	12.4
2004–2008	101	18.2	13	6.7	114	15.3	30	17.6
2009–2013	181	32.7	61	31.6	242	32.4	40	23.5
2014–2018	163	29.4	117	60.6	280	37.5	71	41.8
Region
North	13	2.4	11	5.7	24	3.2	1	0.6
Northeast	81	14.6	23	11.9	104	13.9	15	8.8
Southeast	229	41.3	104	53.9	333	44.6	92	53.8
South	170	30.7	42	21.8	212	28.4	49	28.7
Central-West	24	4.3	10	5.2	34	4.6	2	1.2
International	37	6.7	3	1.6	40	5.4	12	7.0
Knowledge area
Medicine	143	25.8	27	14.0	170	22.3	64	37.6
Collective health	247	44.6	104	53.9	351	47.0	72	42.4
Other	164	29.6	62	32.1	226	30.3	34	20.0
Total	555	74.2	193	25.8	748	100	170	100