FMUL launched two pioneering courses in just one day
Divided into two distinct moments, the Director of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Fausto J. Pinto, could not be more proud of the inaugural sessions he hosted.
A few minutes after 8:30 am, the Specialization Course in Forensic Dentistry began in the Aula Magna. This official ceremony was attended by the Attorney General of the Republic, Lucília Gago, Francisco Corte Real, of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Miguel Pavão, of the Dental Association, the Deputy Director of the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Duarte Marques, as well as the Director of the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Zrinka Tarle, and Hrvoje Brkic, of the Forensic Organization of Zagreb. The Specialization Course in Forensic Dentistry is coordinated by Cristiana Pereira, the Professor who closed the session and provided the starting point for the first face-to-face class. In this first session, some members of the Judiciary Police and of the Centre for Judicial Studies were also present.
It was followed in the afternoon by another meeting, this time regarding the Master Degree in Clinical Research, coordinated by the FMUL Director, Fausto J. Pinto, together with the President of the Pedagogical Council, Joaquim Ferreira. In this session, which dedicated a motivational video to new Master Degree students, FMUL Professor Cristina Sampaio, Chief Medical Officer at the CHDI Foundation, participated directly from the US.
The research paradigms, the expectations regarding “Science that is never closed” and the new adaptation to Real World Data, were the main focuses of reflection by the Professor, who thus launched the motto for what promises to be the training of new leaders.
The Specialization Course in Forensic Dentistry is a postgraduate course with a syllabus consisting of 2 semesters, each semester lasting 15 weeks. It encompasses 17 subjects in a total of 400 hours.
Whereas Forensic Medicine is gaining a new perspective in Portugal, Clinical Research does not fail towards a common goal. Both plan for the future and prepare today's people to get ahead of their own time, in the name of everyone's health.
Watch the opening of each course:
Opening of the Specialization Course in Forensic Dentistry 2021 - YouTube
Opening of the Master Degree in Clinical Reserach - YouTube
The 3rd edition of the Master Degree in Cardiovascular Rehabilitation has started.
After a successful formula proven in the two previous editions, the third group of professionals started today the 3rd edition of the Master Degree in Cardiovascular Rehabilitation.
Doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, cardiopulmonology technicians, psychologists and nutritionists are those who most seek this additional training. Mostly Portuguese, there are also candidates from Belgium, Brazil and Angola.
A secondary prevention strategy, Cardiovascular Rehabilitation allows the patient to recover after an acute cardiovascular event, as a whole and in a multidisciplinary way. With this process, incapacity is reduced, allowing an early return to work and postponing retirement. The ultimate purpose is to improve the quality and quantity of life, reducing negative psychological effects, as well as new, more serious situations of recurrence or progression of the disease.
“In this Master Degree, there will be an update in the cardiovascular area and a greater commitment to the quality of rehabilitation programmes. The objective is that each one of them can integrate into their clinical practice what they learned here and develop in their theses increasingly up to date explanations". Coordinator of this Master Degree, a Cardiologist and member of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ana Abreu gathered the team of lecturers and thus remade several classes of this Master Degree, implementing new lines of information safeguarded in the international guidelines, published this year in August. “The Cardiovascular Prevention guidelines are now out, with new documents on accreditation, certification and quality. All these elements have to be expressed in this Degree. The data we have on a European level, but also on a global scale, offer us the reality that is always in motion”.
The permanent evolution is mirrored in the adaptation to the interaction with patients. As the Professor said, “with the pandemic, we had to adapt the rehabilitation programme to new realities and learn to monitor at a distance and with technological means”.
Fausto Pinto, Director of the Faculty and coordinator of the Master Degree, affirmed his appreciation for the work conducted by Professor Ana Abreu, who is “responsible for the pioneering way in which she pushed Portugal (in terms of Rehabilitation) to a high level of quality in this area and that to date had not happened”.
Regarding the choice of all those who decided to study Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, he thanked them for it and shared his own motivation, “we try to be the light that goes ahead to open new paths”.