INTEGRATED MASTER'S DEGREE IN MEDICINE

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The Integrated Master in Medicine (MIM) at NOVA Medical School (NMS), with a total of 360 credits and 12 curricular semesters of work, incorporates two complementary training cycles:

  • The first cycle of studies aims at obtaining 180 ECTS, distributed over the first six semesters, making a total of 5040 hours of student work;
  • The second cycle of studies aims at obtaining the remaining 180 ECTS, equally distributed over six semesters, making a total of 5040 hours of student work.

 

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Coordenador do MIM - Professor Carlos Filipe
Aluna do 3º Ano do MIM - Margarida Oliveira
Aluno do 4º Ano do MIM - Afonso Andrade
Aluna do 2º Ano do MIM e do 1º Ano de LCN - Ana Teresa Leitão

COORDINATION

Carlos Filipe
Coordinator - Master Degree in Medicine

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STUDY PLAN

1º Semester
Code UC ECTS
11103 Anatomy  13
11106 Introduction to Medicine 3,5
11104 Basic Life Support 0,5
11105 Tissues, Cells and Molecules 13
2nd Semester
Code UC ECTS
11109 Physiology 12
11108 Genetic 4
11107 Nutrition and Metabolism 11
OPTIONAL 2nd Semester
Code UC ECTS
11110 Anatomia Regional I: Tórax, Abdómen, Pelve e Períneo 3
11162 Biologia do Desenvolvimento Embrionário 3
11113 Biomedicina - Perspectiva Histórica 3
11111 Família, Saúde e Doença: a repetição nas Famílias 3
11114 História da Medicina 3
11117 Informática e Aplicações de Informática Médica 3
11115 Língua Estrangeira - Inglês 3

 

1st Semester
Code UC ECTS
11118 Pathology 10
11119 General pharmacology 4
11120 Pathophysiology and therapeutic targets  I 8
11121 Principles of Neurisciences 8
2nd Semester
Code UC ECTS
11122 Pathophysiology and therapeutic targets II 8
11123 Imagiology and clinical anatomy 8
11124 Introduction to clinical practice 11
OPTIONAL 2nd Semester
Code UC ECTS
11128 Anatomia Regional II: Cabeça, Pescoço, Dorso e Membros 3

 

Code UC ECTS
11156 General Surgery 15
11155 Immunology 4
11154 Infection: Etiology, Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Basis 7
11157 Medicine and Society 4
11159 Internal Medicine 15
11160 Laboratorial Medicine 4
11158 Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics 8
OPTIONAL 2nd Semester
Code UC ECTS
11234 Value-Based Health Care 3

 

Code UC ECTS
11186 Surgical and Medical Sspecialties I  15
11188 Surgical and Medical Sspecialties II 15
11185 Gynecology and Obstetrics 8
11189 Introduction to Pediatrics and Adolescence Health 8
11187 O Doente com Infeção
 4
11190 The Elderly Patient 4
11184 Medical Psychology and Behavioural Medicine 3
OPTIONAL 2nd Semester
Code UC ECTS
11195 Bases avançadas de imagiologia médica 3
11134 Diabetologia molecular e clínica 3
11171 Ética e cuidados de saúde 3
11202 Genética Clínica 3
11138 Genética e Saúde Pública 3
11112 Gestão e Análise de Dados 3
11181 Imunoalergologia  3
11203 Introdução à Sexologia Médica 3
11214 Medicina narrativa 3

 

Code UC ECTS
11212 Surgical and Medical Specialties  III 24
11207 Molecular Mechanisms of Disease 3
11209 General and Family Medicine  8
11213 The Patient with Cancer 3
11211 Pediatrics 8
11210 Rational Prescription of Medicines 3
11208 Psychiatry 8
OPTIONAL 2nd Semester
Code UC ECTS
11219 Cuidados paliativos pediátricos 3
11221 Dor 3
11231 Ecocardiografia clínica 3
11194 Eletrocardiografia e arritmologia cardíaca 3
11218 Gestão e governação clínica 3
11217 Medicina farmacêutica 3
11220 Saúde ocupacional 3

 

Code UC ECTS
11142 Surgery (internship) 8
11161 Professionalising Internship 54
11143 Obstetrics and Gynecology (internship) 6
11144 Medicine (internship) 9
11145 General and Familiar Medicine (internship) 6
11146 Pediatrics (internship) 7
11149 Preparation to the Clinical Practice: knowledge integration 3
11147 Mental Health (internship) 6
OPTIONAL 2nd Semester
Code UC ECTS
11235 Abordagens- Omic e Análise de Movimento na Identificação de Biomarcadores 3
11133 Doente crítico 3
11140 Estágios Clínicos Opcionais 3
11199 Manejo da doença crónica em meio hospitalar e cuidados de transição 3
11132 Medicina de Emergência e Catástrofe 3
11151 Trauma  3

 

1st to 6th year - 1st and 2nd semester
Code UC ECTS
11197 Projeto de Investigação 3
2nd and 3rd year - 1st and 2nd semester
Code UC ECTS
11131 Ética e Biomedicina 3
11168 Introdução à Medicina Regenerativa 3
11170 Língua Gestual 3
11164 Medicina Desportiva 3
2nf, 3rd and 4th year - 1st and 2nd semester
Code UC ECTS
11130 Alterações moleculares em cancro 3
11200 Introdução à redação e à publicação científica 3
11169 Medicina Evolutiva 3
2nd to 5th year - 1st and 2nd semester
Code UC ECTS
11230 Metodologias de Investigação Translacional 3
11227 Toxicologia Humana e Genética 3
3th to 5th year - 1st and 2nd semester
Code UC ECTS
11232 Dispositivos Médicos 3
11135 Global Health 3
11233 Medicina 4.0 3
11182 Tele-saúde e tecnologias de informação em Saúde Pública 3
4th and 5th year - 1st and 2nd semester
Code UC ECTS
11196 Avaliação psicossocial e psicoterapias em medicina 3
11201 Escrita de casos clínico-patológicos 3
11192 Imunoterapias inovadoras 3
11216 Introdução à medicina do viajante 3
11215 Medicina legal e ciências forenses 3
11228 Metodologias de Investigação Clínica 3
11226 O laboratório nas doenças autoimunes 3

 

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of the syllabus the student must acquire the necessary competences for the professional practice of Medicine such as:

  • Data collection in the various clinical situations; Elaboration of clinical reasoning in order to formulate provisional and definitive diagnoses;

  • Clinical decision-making;

  • Development and deepening of autonomy skills in order to allow a careful selection of lifelong learning pathways;

  • Development of competences in the field of clinical research in the formulation and execution of studies and in the communication of results to the scientific community and the general public. 

PROFESSIONAL OUTLETS

The doctors trained by NMS will have as their main professional outlets the clinical career (hospital, general and family medicine), public health, legal and occupational medicine, but they can also embark on the career of Research and Teaching.