Medical students and family relationships: tensions between expectations and performance

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This article aims to present the voices of students of an undergraduate medical course about the role of families in their lives and how they perceive themselves to belong to this social group in view of the expectations of the training process and professional future. It also reveals, from the perspective of the undergraduate students, the impacts and influences of the relationships established with family agents, especially parents, based on the choice of a medical career. This is the result of a qualitative research, a case study type and the semi-structured interview was used as the collection technique. Five research collaborators, aged between 18 and 30 years old, participated in the study, and were given fictitious names of precious stones. For the construction of the theoretical basis were used the writings of Petrini (2009); Roudinesco (2002); Bourdieu, (1993); Singly (2010); Silva, Rabinovich and Amorim (2019); Rabinovich, Franco and Moreira (2012); Zittoun (2012); Berger and Luckmann (2004) and Han (2017). The results show that, while they feel pressured internally by family expectations, it is there that students find the support to overcome the challenges pertinent to the academic journey.