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News@FMUL - First year testimonies
“A year of publishing the electronic version of the newsletter is equivalent to:
1. Hundreds of kilos of paper and ink saved.
2. A few metres of shelves spared.
3. A little folder on entitled "Newsletter FMUL" on the hard drive. Tiny.
4. Ability to read it anywhere in the world (there are moments when we miss it...).
5. Divulging of the news in any part of the universe (there are moments when we feel vain...).
Conclusion: could w ego back to a paper version of the Newsletter?
We could.
But it wouldn’t be the same thing anymore”.
Armando Brito de Sá
Institute of Preventive Medicine.
“After a year of news@fmul the students feel that the faculty is more dynamic and close to them – now they have a space where they can share their academic experiences and enrich their view of the faculty! Congratulations news@fmul.”
Diogo Medina,
President of the Students’ Association of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
“The news@fmul newsletter is a quality editorial project which devotes particular attention to the activities of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, although it also includes other issues of interest to the community of which it is a part.
I consider that this publication contributes towards the strengthening of internal and external communication, adding greater value the good name of our School. I hope that it celebrates many more anniversaries... Communicating is important!”
Ana Subtil Simões
Higher Technician in the FCUL Division of Information Organisation and Management and journalist on info-Ciências digital.
"A factor of unity, agglutination and dynamism for the FMUL"
Professor Miguel Castanho
Full Professor at the Biochemistry Institute of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
“After the FMUL newsletter’s first year of life, the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) congratulates all those who created this project and who have used it to contribute to communicate the academic, institutional and scientific life of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.”
Catarina Rebelo
Communication and Training Unit
Institute of Molecular Medicine – IMM.
The news@fmul newsletter has brought the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) closer to its collaborators, allowing us to get to know people, ideas and activities of the most varied kinds.
It brings us closer through information, through its communication strategy, which is accessible to everyone, and through its invitation for everyone to participate and to feel integrated within the FMUL.
Its successful projects depend on factors such as: motivation, team spirit, innovation, intelligence, good sense, boldness and, above all, courage.
A year later the results have been acknowledged by everyone...
A tough blow to scepticism!
Isabel Aguiar
Head of the FMUL Administrative Division.
CONGRATULATIONS, to the Editorial Board and the Editorial Team for the successful bringing about of the project announced in June 2008 and which now in November 2009 has its first birthday.
The aims drawn out in order to meet the needs for internal and external communication for sharing institutional and academic life, as well as our leisure activities, created expectations befitting change and newness.
As readers of and contributors to the Newsletter, we may state that this virtual medium of communication has functioned as an impulse to curiosity and the desire to open one’s e-mail and the FMUL page.
The design of the Newsletter is pleasant and easy to read, and its contents are up to date and personalised.
Being informed about the activities in the FMUL stimulates everyone’s will to be a part and to “wear the badge”, as well as establishing strong interaction and pride in our institution.
We know that through the items that make up the Newsletter and the underlying rules for sending documentation we are kept up to date and we can contribute towards that information.
The Editorial Team’s sensitivity to readers’ comments about the contents and layout of the Newsletter has led to an online questionnaire to find out the FMUL’s opinions.
This initiative will allow them to analyse the replies and discover the weak and strong points of bringing about virtual information; that is, to assess the degree of institutional satisfaction. We await the results, which will surely be in keeping with the testimonies of congratulations that will appear in this edition.
Our wishes for success and keep up the good work!
Carlota Saldanha
Coordinator of the FMUL Planning and Evaluation Office (GPA)
Among other things, the modernisation and dynamic of an institution comes from the way communication within it is structured in order to carry the information indispensable to achieve its aims, namely, in the case of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), to constitute an interface of efficient information among its management organs and its teachers and students.
The information put out by the FMUL Newsletter, besides being an instrument of cohesion for the institution, has been rigorous and as up to date as possible. The image it has sought to transmit to the University and to the outside has been that of a modern medical school centred on training doctors, without forgetting the sciences akin to medicine, and with levels of functioning equivalent to the most advanced on a European level.
As essential components in the medical training it administers to its students, the FMUL incorporates under- and post-graduate teaching, as well as a clinical component that is strongly inserted within hospital activity, both in the Santa Maria Hospital and in its affiliated hospitals, along with basic and clinical scientific research which is widely published internationally.
The FMUL Newsletter, which is now commemorating its first anniversary, has thus sought to be an instrument for solidification of an institutional idea/concept based on the constituent foundations of the new project that the FMUL has embraced, associating a deep curricular reform to the joint creation, with the IMM and Santa Maria Hospital, of the Academic Medical Centre.
J. Alexandre Ribeiro,
Institute of Pharmacology and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon
When speaking about the FMUL Newsletter, one year after the online publication of its first issue, one has to go back further in time. A time that was historic for the germinating of the internal communication by the FMUL and for the FMUL.
Everything started when a group of the non-teaching collaborators realized that it was necessary to get to know each other better internally and communicate what was being done at the FMUL in each of its services in order to create better interaction and institutional cohesion, and to germinate the spirit of feeling he FMUL as a whole, in which each member contributes towards the success of the institution.
Besides this, it was thought interesting to grant visibility to some personal projects by some collaborators and to take advantage of good practices in order to involve the whole institution: this led, for example, to the project for the FMUL volunteer work in the annual campaign for the food bank against hunger.
And, because there is life outside the FMUL, the newsletter began to publish some articles to do with leisure activity.
This first approach was successful, and had such an impact in terms of internal and external visibility that it led to the forming of the News@FMUL, a project that has always had the support of the Dean’s office and is now one year old, carrying with it an external award for recognition of quality.
Today the FMUL Newsletter is by everyone and for everyone.
This project for internal and external institutional communication has been successful, and the level of quality is extremely high and acknowledged by outside entities, making the Newsletter compulsory monthly reading.
It should also not be forgotten, however, that the Newsletter is synonymous with the dedication, commitment, dynamism, stamina and enterprise of an extraordinary team, which, besides their regular professional activities that they have to carry out every day at the FMUL, dedicate a lot of their personal time and professional keenness so that the Newsletter appears every month on the email adviser on our computers.
It is due to these colleagues of ours that the Newsletter continues to record the same level of quality and success, with the contribution of the whole of the FMUL being mandatory whenever we are called upon to participate.
What will the News@FMUL be in the future? Whatever we (teachers, non teaching staff, leaders, doctors, nurses, researchers and students) want it to be; but without any doubt it will be a mark of unquestionable quality, granting visibility to the institution and which will soon be transformed into the News@CAM – the Newsletter of the Academic Medicine Centre.
Paula Saraiva
Institute of Advanced Training.
1. Hundreds of kilos of paper and ink saved.
2. A few metres of shelves spared.
3. A little folder on entitled "Newsletter FMUL" on the hard drive. Tiny.
4. Ability to read it anywhere in the world (there are moments when we miss it...).
5. Divulging of the news in any part of the universe (there are moments when we feel vain...).
Conclusion: could w ego back to a paper version of the Newsletter?
We could.
But it wouldn’t be the same thing anymore”.
Armando Brito de Sá
Institute of Preventive Medicine.
“After a year of news@fmul the students feel that the faculty is more dynamic and close to them – now they have a space where they can share their academic experiences and enrich their view of the faculty! Congratulations news@fmul.”
Diogo Medina,
President of the Students’ Association of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
“The news@fmul newsletter is a quality editorial project which devotes particular attention to the activities of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, although it also includes other issues of interest to the community of which it is a part.
I consider that this publication contributes towards the strengthening of internal and external communication, adding greater value the good name of our School. I hope that it celebrates many more anniversaries... Communicating is important!”
Ana Subtil Simões
Higher Technician in the FCUL Division of Information Organisation and Management and journalist on info-Ciências digital.
"A factor of unity, agglutination and dynamism for the FMUL"
Professor Miguel Castanho
Full Professor at the Biochemistry Institute of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
“After the FMUL newsletter’s first year of life, the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) congratulates all those who created this project and who have used it to contribute to communicate the academic, institutional and scientific life of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.”
Catarina Rebelo
Communication and Training Unit
Institute of Molecular Medicine – IMM.
The news@fmul newsletter has brought the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) closer to its collaborators, allowing us to get to know people, ideas and activities of the most varied kinds.
It brings us closer through information, through its communication strategy, which is accessible to everyone, and through its invitation for everyone to participate and to feel integrated within the FMUL.
Its successful projects depend on factors such as: motivation, team spirit, innovation, intelligence, good sense, boldness and, above all, courage.
A year later the results have been acknowledged by everyone...
A tough blow to scepticism!
Isabel Aguiar
Head of the FMUL Administrative Division.
CONGRATULATIONS, to the Editorial Board and the Editorial Team for the successful bringing about of the project announced in June 2008 and which now in November 2009 has its first birthday.
The aims drawn out in order to meet the needs for internal and external communication for sharing institutional and academic life, as well as our leisure activities, created expectations befitting change and newness.
As readers of and contributors to the Newsletter, we may state that this virtual medium of communication has functioned as an impulse to curiosity and the desire to open one’s e-mail and the FMUL page.
The design of the Newsletter is pleasant and easy to read, and its contents are up to date and personalised.
Being informed about the activities in the FMUL stimulates everyone’s will to be a part and to “wear the badge”, as well as establishing strong interaction and pride in our institution.
We know that through the items that make up the Newsletter and the underlying rules for sending documentation we are kept up to date and we can contribute towards that information.
The Editorial Team’s sensitivity to readers’ comments about the contents and layout of the Newsletter has led to an online questionnaire to find out the FMUL’s opinions.
This initiative will allow them to analyse the replies and discover the weak and strong points of bringing about virtual information; that is, to assess the degree of institutional satisfaction. We await the results, which will surely be in keeping with the testimonies of congratulations that will appear in this edition.
Our wishes for success and keep up the good work!
Carlota Saldanha
Coordinator of the FMUL Planning and Evaluation Office (GPA)
Among other things, the modernisation and dynamic of an institution comes from the way communication within it is structured in order to carry the information indispensable to achieve its aims, namely, in the case of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), to constitute an interface of efficient information among its management organs and its teachers and students.
The information put out by the FMUL Newsletter, besides being an instrument of cohesion for the institution, has been rigorous and as up to date as possible. The image it has sought to transmit to the University and to the outside has been that of a modern medical school centred on training doctors, without forgetting the sciences akin to medicine, and with levels of functioning equivalent to the most advanced on a European level.
As essential components in the medical training it administers to its students, the FMUL incorporates under- and post-graduate teaching, as well as a clinical component that is strongly inserted within hospital activity, both in the Santa Maria Hospital and in its affiliated hospitals, along with basic and clinical scientific research which is widely published internationally.
The FMUL Newsletter, which is now commemorating its first anniversary, has thus sought to be an instrument for solidification of an institutional idea/concept based on the constituent foundations of the new project that the FMUL has embraced, associating a deep curricular reform to the joint creation, with the IMM and Santa Maria Hospital, of the Academic Medical Centre.
J. Alexandre Ribeiro,
Institute of Pharmacology and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon
When speaking about the FMUL Newsletter, one year after the online publication of its first issue, one has to go back further in time. A time that was historic for the germinating of the internal communication by the FMUL and for the FMUL.
Everything started when a group of the non-teaching collaborators realized that it was necessary to get to know each other better internally and communicate what was being done at the FMUL in each of its services in order to create better interaction and institutional cohesion, and to germinate the spirit of feeling he FMUL as a whole, in which each member contributes towards the success of the institution.
Besides this, it was thought interesting to grant visibility to some personal projects by some collaborators and to take advantage of good practices in order to involve the whole institution: this led, for example, to the project for the FMUL volunteer work in the annual campaign for the food bank against hunger.
And, because there is life outside the FMUL, the newsletter began to publish some articles to do with leisure activity.
This first approach was successful, and had such an impact in terms of internal and external visibility that it led to the forming of the News@FMUL, a project that has always had the support of the Dean’s office and is now one year old, carrying with it an external award for recognition of quality.
Today the FMUL Newsletter is by everyone and for everyone.
This project for internal and external institutional communication has been successful, and the level of quality is extremely high and acknowledged by outside entities, making the Newsletter compulsory monthly reading.
It should also not be forgotten, however, that the Newsletter is synonymous with the dedication, commitment, dynamism, stamina and enterprise of an extraordinary team, which, besides their regular professional activities that they have to carry out every day at the FMUL, dedicate a lot of their personal time and professional keenness so that the Newsletter appears every month on the email adviser on our computers.
It is due to these colleagues of ours that the Newsletter continues to record the same level of quality and success, with the contribution of the whole of the FMUL being mandatory whenever we are called upon to participate.
What will the News@FMUL be in the future? Whatever we (teachers, non teaching staff, leaders, doctors, nurses, researchers and students) want it to be; but without any doubt it will be a mark of unquestionable quality, granting visibility to the institution and which will soon be transformed into the News@CAM – the Newsletter of the Academic Medicine Centre.
Paula Saraiva
Institute of Advanced Training.
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