Concurso Especial Licenciados | Mestrado Integrado em Medicina

No. Students covered by the international student statute, regulated by Decree-Law no. 36/2014, of March 10, amended and republished by Decree-Law no. 62/2018, of August 6, are excluded from this competition.

No, although the regulations stipulate that a request must be submitted when applying, the fact that the application is now made exclusively online does not require this procedure. Applications will be considered valid if they comply with the rules published in the Call for Applications.
This does not exempt you from reading and complying with all the other rules set out in the Regulations.

The application will only be considered valid once the corresponding fee has been paid. ATM references will appear during the application.

You will only be able to complete your application once you have submitted all the documents

The documents must be submitted when applying online, i.e. they must be uploaded to the platform.

No. You will need to submit the Minute available on our website, duly completed by the doctor registered with the Portuguese Medical Association. Only this will be accepted as proof of prerequisite. Where it says “issued on”, the date to put is the
date on which the prerequisite is passed. Other types of declaration/medical certificates will not be accepted.

Note: Only Annex III.1 should be submitted, the other annexes should be kept by the doctor or health service.
the doctor or health services.

No. Prerequisite - Group A can be completed by any doctor registered with the
Medical Association

You must take into account the period between the date the pre-requisite is issued and the application deadline, which cannot exceed 30 days.

Yes, any Bachelor's Degree or Integrated Master's Degree, national or foreign (as long as it is previously recognized in Portugal), with a minimum of 180 ECTS) is accepted for application.

You can only apply for this competition if you have obtained in Portugal the equivalence of the same degree, recognition of qualifications or registration of academic degree, issued by a competent authority. In order to benefit from the score attributed to the degree you are applying for, the recognition of the qualification or the registration of the degree must have an associated classification.

No, this competition is only open to people who have already finished their degree, or who will finish it during the application period.

Please note that your first degree will be the degree you choose to apply for (Bachelor's, Master's, Integrated Master's or PhD).
By way of example: if you choose to apply with a Master's degree, you will not benefit from the 5 additional points (referred to in Article 10 - criteria in point c) “Additional academic degrees (GA)” of the Regulations) that the Master's degree could give you as an additional degree. The degree you choose to apply for is not cumulative, i.e. it cannot be used twice for the purposes of the assessment criteria.

No, the degree will only be considered if you have proof of completion, dated before the application deadline.

The best classification is considered, regardless of the stage or year in which the
exam was taken.

Yes, you can apply with the document you have, as it will always be valid regardless of its date of issue.

The 42 candidates with the highest marks after applying the 1st stage criteria will be called for interview highest marks after applying the 1st stage criteria.

The hearing of interested parties allows candidates to raise any questions they wish to have clarified about the stage of the competition procedure for which this period is intended. A
each stage of the procedure there will be a prior hearing period.

Yes, it is possible. Through the Special Competition for Graduates, you will always be enrolled in the 1st year of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine (MIM). Only after you have enrolled will you be able to request credits (equivalences) with curricular units taken at other institutions. Once the syllabus submitted for accreditation has been analyzed, the MIM Coordinator and/or the regents will be able to decide on this situation.
Only after this analysis will you be able to receive accreditation or not, and eventually move on to another
year. Please note that accreditation is not guaranteed and is subject to analysis as mentioned above.

As entrevistas decorrem em formato presencial, na sede da NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, não estando previstas exceções.