Present constraints do have, and shall have, in the short and medium term, a major impact on the life of Institutions. The Faculty of Medicine (students, lecturers, and non-teaching staff) will not escape unscathed from their consequences. This fact will force us to rethink about decisions, projects, and about an endless number of small issues that, to some extent, may compromise the strategy for transforming and modernizing our School.

Despite the problems we had to face in 2010, which is now drawing to an end, and of the many difficulties we can already anticipate, there are signs that suggest that not everything gets a negative mark in the country, in the University of Lisbon, or in our Faculty.

The country has recently received a positive mark from the OECD with regard to Education.