The inclusion of undergraduate students in physiology outreach activities improves their physiology learning and understanding skills.

THE TRADITIONAL TEACHING METHOD USING EXPOSITIVE CLASS has limitations, as the only way of knowledge transmission relies on the relationship between teacher/professor and student, and because of this, several ways of teaching and elucidation of the contents have been discussed (1, 2). The motivation to research new teaching methods is also stimulated by the poor results in traditional methods for promoting active learning and students’ creativity (5). Most of new teaching methods consider the students’ active learning. In the active learning, the teacher/ professor plays the role of guide to the students, and they will become part of the knowledge construction process and not just a receptor (8). Universities are places where the knowledge is produced; additionally, a university has the potential to transform social realities. The university outreach activities are a form of articulation between the knowledge production and transmission by means of an educational, cultural, and scientific process (6). In this sense, the involvement of undergraduate students in these types of activities could contribute to their formation. Here, we set out to determine the contributions of involvement of undergraduate students in outreach activities on their perception about their physiology learning and understanding skills.