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According to the increasing number of graduated physicians, the National Curriculum Guidelines (NCG) for medical schools and, consequently, your Pedagogic Project which contemplates the Curriculum Contents and Extracurricular Activities (EA), modifies itself in the intention to build, during the graduation, a active physician involved in the improvement of the population's health, especially in Primary Care. This systematic review of the literature aimed to characterize the profile of EA in medical graduation. The articles for this review were searched in the Portal of Periodicos (CAPES) and in the Virtual Health Library (BVS) using the combined descriptors "Medicine", "Medical Education" and "Extracurricular Activities", being selected those in portuguese published between 2011 and 2020, that were synthesized with references and quantitative data in Microsoft Office Excel and Tabwin. Characterization of multiples EA were found within the 11 chosen articles, being the majority of them about Academics Leagues, Extension Projects and Scientific Initiation, especially through experience reports. The analisis was realized considering the findings within the papers and the NGC, and were identified the predominance of welfare actions without longitudinal interaction in Extension, while and Leagues reports it was observed larger interest in the study of specialties. Through this analysis was observed the need of a qualified dialogue with students in order to provide a better understanding of the EA propositions and also that future studies are required to be developed towards expanding the knowledgeand address the challeges about the EA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]