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We define biological accidents as the cutaneous, percutaneous or mucosal exposure to corporal fluids as blood, saliva and similar during our medical academic practices. We designed a descriptive study and applied a retrospective, anonymous, confidential, and voluntary survey to all medical students that were attending school between the academic years of 2002 and 2003. The results indicated that 18,8 out of 100 students had a biological accident, where 50,3% was blood splash over the intact skin. The corporal fluid most frequently implicated was blood. The action taken immediately afterthe accident was cleaning the exposed area (51 ,3%). We found out that 68,8% did not report the accident. The survey also dictated that 25,4% had a complete scheme against hepatitis B, and 32,9% did not have any. Finally 68,8% of the students survey did not have any knowledge or information about bio-security, prevention of biological accidents, or adequate attention in case of this type of accident. We believe that the high incidence of exposure of the students to potential danger, and with Iittle notice and training, could be indicating the lack of attention given to this issue.
