Assessment of Post-Traumatic Bodily (Personal) Injury

Designed to provide all professionals who perform functions within the scope of Bodily Injury Assessment (Personal) with competence and practice in the field of judicial and extrajudicial intervention in the repair of damage.

This course allows doctors and dentists to carry out expert activity in accordance with their medical specialty, contributing to developing or updating the knowledge of the respective professionals who carry out or may carry out professional activity in insurance companies, courts and other institutions public or private related to expert activity.

It is aimed at graduates and masters in Medicine and Dentistry, but professionals in the areas of Law, Psychology, Nursing and Social Work may be admitted.

3 reasons to choose this course

1.

Practical aspects are privileged in order to provide experts involved in the assessment of bodily harm with practical knowledge and skills for a qualified assessment of bodily harm in its various areas.

2.

For professionals who wish to provide an important service to the community within the scope of bodily injury assessment.

3.

Having completed a course of the type proposed here is one of the mandatory criteria for admission to competence in assessing bodily injury by the Medical Association.

Objectives

Create a period of acquisition of basic skills in assessing bodily harm (knowledge, skills and attitudes), with a view to preparing doctors and dentists to act correctly and appropriately, in the best interests of society and always in accordance with the law, when faced in their professional life with issues of repairing the damage, regardless of the area in which they work, in order to contribute to an adequate and fair assessment of the damage to the person.
Provide theoretical knowledge and practical skills for a qualified assessment of damage to the person in its various areas.

Skills acquisition

To enable students to obtain a set of basic knowledge about the various aspects of damage assessment, with regard to its scope, objectives, competencies and relevant legislation, with particular emphasis on the way in which this area contributes to the good administration of justice.
To enable students to obtain a set of practical skills for a qualified assessment of damage and personalized to the person in its various domains.

Professional Opportunities

It is a specialization course recommended for all doctors and dentists who work as experts.

Target Students

Holders of a bachelor's or master's degree in Dentistry and Medicine;
Holders of a bachelor's or master's degree in Law;
Holders of equivalent foreign university degrees, whose curriculum demonstrates adequate basic preparation and for whom the scientific committee of the study cycle gives a favorable opinion.

Admission Conditions

Candidates for the course will be selected based on the criteria to be published in the Course Notice for 2024-2025, according to the recipients. All candidates admitted to the selection process are ranked according to the score obtained in the curricular selection process, which can be eliminatory, and interview according to the weighting defined by the Scientific Committee of the Specialization Course:

Curricular Assessment: 60%;

Interview: 40%.

Frequency Regime

In person

Language

Portuguese

Other Information

To apply please visit: https://fenix.medicina.ulisboa.pt

Candidates who already have a CAMPUS account (who are attending or have attended a course at the Faculdade de Medicina), must start the application at https://fenix.medicina.ulisboa.pt

To access must log in with the Campus account and then access the Candidate menu (at the top of the page) to start the application.

If you don’t remember the username or password of the account click HERE and follow the instructions for the recovery of the username or password. If you cannot retrieve your username or password trough the recovery mechanism, you should send an email to the address suporte@medicina.ulisboa.pt with the following data: full name; student number; course number identification; ID number (BI/CC); External email.

Applicants who do not have access to the Campus account (Fenix) should register HERE.

After creating your account you will receive in your email the username after which can start the formalization of the application in https://fenix.medicina.ulisboa.pt