UPECLIN- the Clinical Research Unit of BMS Hospital of Clinics is part of the National Network for Clinical Research in Teaching Hospitals, and aims at contributing to the generation and tranfer of knowledge in the field of health to providers of human resource training. It also promotes Good Clinical Research Practices (GCP and GRP) according to specific methods and adequate scientific rigor in both the conduction and the proposal of multicentric projects of interest to the National Health Policy.