Dr. Estêvão Cubas Rolim

Current roles

Six fronts at the same time

Clinical care, teaching, research, and professional representation go hand in hand — it is from this combination that Escola de Pacientes' projects come.

Escola de Pacientes

Since 2016 I have directed the work and research of Escola de Pacientes, which brought together in one strategy three fronts that usually run separately: continuing education for professionals, health training for students, and health education for patients and the community.

What sets it apart from similar initiatives are the products it has left behind: the clinical simulations and digital patients, the Age-Based Medical Record, the Simple Prescription, the YouTube channel, and the care and guidance folders, with technical annexes and printed or digital material for the clinic and social media.

Figures compiled up to March 2025.

Creating educational tools for students and patients, clinical training, and in-service education is a daily constant, contributing to graduate data and to the unit's scientific output. My life story is in SUS and is based on the pillars of health, education, and community involvement.

Awards and recognitions

Career, year by year

From the beginning at UBS 2 in Itapoã to the consultancy at the Senate, in the order it happened — from most recent to oldest.

• 2026 Sworn in as non-voting member of the Supplementary Health Commission of OAB-DF, on April 23, for the 2025–2027 three-year term. Completion of the specializations in Medical Law and Health and in Higher Education Teaching at Gran Centro Universitário.
• 2025 Completion of the PhD in Public Health at UnB, with the thesis "Social media and promotion of self-care in people with hypertension: emerging challenges in Primary Health Care professional practice in the face of the Burnout Society".
• 2023 Elected Councilor of CRM-DF on Slate 4, and started at the Legislative Consultancy of the Federal Senate.
• 2022 Organization and publication of the book "Escola de Pacientes and Health Education Technologies", gathering chapters on digital methodologies and tools in training and care, with contributions from students and professionals linked to the group.
• 2021 Publication of the authored technical book "Escola de Pacientes — A Strategy for Continuing Education, Health Training, and Health Education with Teaching–Service–Community Integration".
• 2020 Start at the Central Administration of SES-DF as District Technical Officer in Family Medicine. From 2018, videos begin to aim for wider reach, with topics of public interest, shorter length, and accessible language.
• 2019 Start of teaching at UnB, for final-semester Medicine classes — Primary Care Internship. Completion of the professional master's, start of the doctorate, joining SES-DF's Innovation Steering Group, linking the research to GEFIESCO/UnB, and being ranked as qualified in the Legislative Consultant public examination of the Legislative Chamber of the DF. Also starts the weekly program with the media partners of widest reach, on topics such as emotional health and suicide prevention, dengue, pregnancy, and family planning.
• 2018 The Citizen Health Award, with the Prescribe a Book project, brings R$ 50,000 for the renovation of Basic Health Unit 3 in Itapoã.
• 2017 1st place at the SUS DF Showcase, with seven oral presentations from different research lines, and 1st place at INOVA Brasília with the visual prescription template — which was covered by 6 TV stations, 2 radio interviews, and 17 news reports. The topic became the professional master's at UnB, with validation by the Delphi technique.
• 2016 Start of Escola de Pacientes and of work as a physician at SES-DF. UBS Itapoã is chosen as the laboratory unit for the planning process with CONASS, in which I act as a tutor — marking the start of audiovisual material production on the unit's work processes.

Academic education

• 2025–2026 Specialization in Medical Law and Health — Gran Centro Universitário, 360 class hours. Period: September 26, 2025 to March 31, 2026.
• 2025–2026 Specialization in Higher Education Teaching — Gran Centro Universitário, 415 class hours. Period: September 26, 2025 to March 31, 2026.
• 2025 Specialization in Criminal and Judicial Expertise — Gran Centro Universitário, 392 class hours. Period: May 31 to December 2, 2025; certificate issued in January 2026.
• 2019–2025 PhD in Public Health — University of Brasília. Thesis on promoting supported self-care in noncommunicable chronic disease and the use of audiovisual content on social media in primary care.
• 2017–2019 Professional Master's in Public Health — University of Brasília. Dissertation: "Development and validation of a visual prescription template adapted to the needs of the population with chronic diseases — Simple Prescription".
• 2016–2017 Postgraduate in Public Health and Family Health — Brazilian Institute of Education, 580 hours. Final paper on preparing for planning at UBS Itapoã.
• 2015–2016 Postgraduate in Geriatrics and Gerontology — Brazilian Institute of Education, 580 hours. Final paper on medical care in a basic health unit, focusing on the geriatric population and benzodiazepine use.
• 2008–2015 Medical degree — UnB Faculty of Medicine, with a sandwich undergraduate program through Science Without Borders at the University of Calgary, Canada.
• 2018 — Bachelor's degree in Public Management — Centro Universitário Euro-Americano.
• Ongoing Undergraduate degrees in Law and in Computing/Information Technology with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence.
• 2026 Enrollment in the specialization in Pedagogical Coordination — Faculdade de Minas EAD (FACUMINAS), 640 hours. Enrolled on March 25, 2026, expected to finish in September 2027.

Undergraduate studies and what came from them

I completed Medicine at UnB in 2015, with a sandwich undergraduate program through Science Without Borders at the University of Calgary — main campus, Foothills General Hospital, with an internship at Alberta Children's Hospital. The international experience of 2013 was significant for its professional and personal learning, and for improving my English and French.

During my undergraduate studies I took part in research projects in Medical Education and in Biochemistry and Biophysics, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Hermes-Lima: two undergraduate research projects and presentations at five national and two international conferences, winning best paper for "Students' blogs as a tool for learning Clinical Biochemistry", in 2010. During that period I was responsible for science communication on the course page, in the "Coluna do Estêvão" (Estêvão's Column).

I then conducted research in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery at Dr. Sérgio Arruda's Clinic, with work presented at two national conferences — also winning best paper, in 2011 — and three international ones. The last was the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity congress in New Delhi, in 2012.

Outside research, I took part in histology and anatomy tutoring, coordinated the organization of materials from senior students for first-years — the Standard Folder (Pasta Padrão) — and joined the Class 88 Study Group, with weekly five-hour meetings over three years to prepare for residency exams. The final rotation was in Psychiatry and Primary Care, with a rural placement in Ceres, Goiás.

Between undergraduate and graduate studies

I worked for a year on phase III clinical trials at the L2 Clinical Research Institute, linked to the Center for Clinical and Basic Research, based in Denmark. Postgraduate studies followed in Geriatrics and Gerontology and in Public Health and Family Health, in addition to courses at the Brazilian Institute of Education, the SUPERA course (UNIFESP and SENAD), and the PROMEF continuing education program in Family Medicine and PROPSIQ in Psychiatry.

Professional activities

Ongoing

• Councilor of CRM-DF — 2023–2028 term, since November 2023.
• Legislative Consultancy of the Federal Senate — since March 2023.
• Teaching at the University of Brasília — Faculty of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Comprehensive Health Internship 1 and 2, since March 2019.
• Family and Community Medicine — SES-DF, since February 2016.
• Representative of the District Technical Reference — Family and Community Health, Central Administration of SES-DF, since October 2020.
• Reviewer of scientific publications — PLOS One, since 2013; and Ciência, Comunicação e Saúde (CCS), since 2021.

Previous

• 2023 — Preceptorship of the Internship of the UnB Faculty of Medicine, started in April 2016.
• 2018 and 2015 — Examining board for writing Clinical Medicine questions for medical residency exams, for the Instituto Americano de Desenvolvimento.
• 2017 — Closer ties with the Study and Research Group on Work in Health (GEPTS), of the Public Health Studies Center at UnB.
• 2016–2017 — Tutor in the Planning of Health Care Networks, in the Healthy Brasília program of the Federal District Government in partnership with CONASS. The process chose the health center and UBS Itapoã as laboratory units, with about 250 staff members involved, and focused on cardiovascular risk, hypertension, and diabetes.
• 2016 — Preceptorship of the Multiprofessional Residency and PET-Saúde (GRADUASUS), interrupted by physical space limitations at the service, with the partnerships maintained.
• 2015–2016 — Physician at the L2 Research Institute, in phase III clinical trials.
• 2015–2016 — Philosophy course (evening bachelor's program) at UnB.
• 2013–2014 — Science Without Borders at the University of Calgary, with a 560-hour supervised internship in the Department of Genetics at Alberta Children's Hospital, mentored by Prof. Dr. Judy Chernos, and membership of the organizing committee of History of Medicine Days 2014.
• 2009–2011 — Tutoring in gross anatomy (180 hours) and histology (120 hours), and publications on Clinical Biochemistry in the "Coluna do Estêvão" (Estêvão's Column), on the tutors' blog in Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Complementary education

Courses, conferences, and continuing education programs, from most recent to oldest.

• 2026 12th Occupational Medicine Forum of the Federal Council of Medicine — Brasília, August 14, in person, 5 h. Theme: Contemporary Challenges of Occupational Medicine: Medical Autonomy, Innovation, and Protection of Workers' Health.
• 2026 1st Forum on Diabetic Foot Issues of the Federal Council of Medicine — July 31, online, 4 h. Theme: The Physician as Protagonist in the Care of Patients with Diabetic Foot.
• 2026 2nd Digestive Endoscopy Webinar of the Federal Council of Medicine — July 30, online, 3 h. Theme: Caustic Substances: Real Harm to Children's Health.
• 2026 2nd Forum on Medical Auditing of the Federal Council of Medicine — July 29, virtual, 5 h. Theme: The Strategic Role of Medical Auditing in Health Care.
• 2026 Administrative Registration and Billing course — Implanta, May 27 to 29, 20 class hours.
• 2026 3rd Traffic Medicine Forum of the Federal Council of Medicine — Brasília, May 6, 7 h. Theme: The Importance of Physical and Mental Fitness Examinations for drivers and driver candidates of motor vehicles.
• 2026 Participation in the 24th European Congress of Internal Medicine (ECIM) — Vienna, Austria, March 25 to 28.
• 2018 EURACT Leonardo course level 1, for General and Family Medicine trainers — 30 h.
• 2018 Innovations for Strengthening Primary Care — PAHO/WHO with the Andalusian School of Public Health, 30 h.
• 2018 Update on Clinical Management of Influenza — Fiocruz, 6 h.
• 2018 12th Brazilian Congress of Public Health, in Rio de Janeiro, with 2 posters — 30 h.
• 2018 3rd Annual Clinical Issues in Primary Care Conference, in the United States — 40 h.
• 2017–2018 12th cycle of PROMEF, of the Brazilian Society of Family and Community Medicine — 120 h.
• 2017–2018 6th cycle of PROPSIQ, of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association — 120 h.
• 2017 3rd Brazilian Congress of Health Policy, Planning, and Management, in Natal, with 5 posters — 45 h.
• 2017 Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging in Clinical Practice — 10 h.
• 2016–2017 11th cycle of PROMEF — 120 h; and 5th cycle of PROPSIQ — 120 h.
• 2016 21st WONCA World Conference of Family Doctors, in Rio de Janeiro, with a continuing education program — 65 h.
• 2016 SUPERA course, 9th edition — UNIFESP in partnership with SENAD, 150 h.
• 2016 Biopsychosocial care for adolescents with Diabetes Mellitus — SES-DF, 2 h.
• 2015 Four courses at the Brazilian Institute of Education, 80 h each: Family and Community Health, Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Public Health.
• 2014 ACLS — Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, by the Institute of Cardiology of the DF, 20 h.
• 2012 17th World Congress of IFSO, in New Delhi — 24 h, with the Basic Medical Writing course, 8 h.
• 2012 27th Annual Meeting of FeSBE, with the course on preparing oral presentations and posters.
• 2010–2012 Two undergraduate research projects in the UnB Department of Cell Biology — oxidative stress and biochemistry teaching — under the mentorship of Prof. Marcelo Hermes-Lima.
• 2011 2nd Clinical Emergencies Course of the UnB Academic League of Internal Medicine — 13 h.
• 2010 48th Brazilian Congress of Medical Education, in Goiânia — 32 h; 1st Scientific Day of the UnB Cardiology League — 6 h; and 1st Hematology Course of LACM-UnB — 26 h.
• 2009 2nd Course on Molecular Biology Applied to Clinical Practice — 12 h; Symposium on Traumatic Urgencies and Emergencies — 20 h; and 4th Pre-COLT DF — 12 h.

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