The Master’s Degree in Physiotherapy of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) was recommended by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) in July 2008. The program’s main focus area is “Physiotherapy in Health Care,” with its guiding principle based on new concepts and discussions involving the health process. An understanding of this process, which is based on the organization of societies and human relations within their environment, goes beyond the “absence of disease” discourse.