The Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM, Portuguese for Federal Council of Medicine) is the Brazilian independent public agency of the Ministry of Work and Employment officially in charge of professional regulation and medical licensing in the area of medicine in the country.

The councils are supported by annual contributions required of all those practicing medicine in Brazil.

The councilors are necessarily doctors, who are elected by their peers for a purely honorary office, without any remuneration.

In addition to the notary functions, such as professional registration of doctors and their titles, the Federal Council and the Medical Board are, under law, the supervisory bodies of professional ethics, which it must ensure and work, by all means at its disposal, toward the perfect performance of ethical medicine and the prestige and good reputation of the profession.

It has dozens of technical committees in charge of studying and issuing recommendations and decrees related to the practice of medicine.