INTEGRATED MASTER'S DEGREE IN MEDICINE

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The Integrated Master in Medicine (MIM) at NOVA Medical School (NMS), with a total of 360 credits and 12 curricular semesters of work, incorporates two complementary training cycles:

The first cycle of studies aims at obtaining 180 ECTS, distributed over the first six semesters, making a total of 5040 hours of student work;
The second cycle of studies aims at obtaining the remaining 180 ECTS, equally distributed over six semesters, making a total of 5040 hours of student work.

Testimonials

Professor Carlos Filipe, Coordinator of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine

Ana Rita Póvoa, NOVA Medical School Alumna

Rodrigo Teixeira, 5th year student of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine

Rita Sá Machado, NOVA Medical School Alumna and Director General of Health

Aluna do 2º Ano do MIM e do 1º Ano de LCN - Ana Teresa Leitão

Teresa Prazeres, NOVA Medical School Alumna

Rafael Silva, 4th year student of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine

COORDINATION

Carlos Filipe

Coordinator - Master Degree in Medicine

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STUDY PLAN

1st Year

1º Semester

	UC	ECTS
	Anatomy 1	9
	Cellular and Molecular Biology	8
	Physiology I	8
	Basic Life Support	1
	Introduction to Medicine	3

2nd Semester

	UC	ECTS
	Histology & Embryology	7
	Anatomy II	7
	Nutritional Biochemistry	10
	Physiology II	7

2nd year

1st Semester

	UC	ECTS
	Genetics	5
	Anatomic Pathology I	6
	Pharmacology I	6
	Pathophysiology I	5
	Principles of Neurisciences	7

2nd Semester

	UC	ECTS
	Anatomic Pathology II	6
	Pathophysiology II	6
	Introduction to Clinical Practice	11
	Pharmacology II	5
	Basic Microbiology	3

3rd Year

	UC	ECTS
	Unit Laboratory Medicine	4
	Internal Medicine	14
	Public Health and Epidemiology	4
	Biostatistics	4
	Immunology	4
	General Surgery	14
	Ethics, Medicine and Society	3
	Infection: From Laboratory Diagnosis to Clinical Practice	5
	Imagiology	5
	Optional	3

4th Year

	UC	ECTS
	Motor Device	7
	Medical Specialties I	8
	Heart & Lung Medicine	8
	Surgical Specialties	7
	Gynecology and Obstetrics	8
	Introduction to Paediatrics and Adolescence Health	8
	Infection and sepsis	3.5
	The Elderly Patient	3.5
	Behavioural Medicine	4
	Optional II	3

5th Year

	UC	ECTS
	Molecular Mechanisms of Disease	3
	Psychiatry	8
	Family Medicine	8
	Medical Therapeutics	3
	Paediatrics	8
	The Patient with Cancer	6
	Medical Specialties II	12
	Medical Specialties III	9
	Optional III	3

6th Year

	UC	ECTS
	Preparation for Clinical Practice	3
	Professionalising Internship	54
	Mental Health Clerkship*
	Surgery Internship*
	Gynecology and Obstetrics (Partial Internship)*
	Internal Medicine (Clinical Practice)*
	General and Family Medicine (Clinical Practice)*
	Paediatrics Clerkship*
	Final Internship Report*
	Optional IV	3

* Component of the Professional Internship curricular unit, with the following credit distribution:Mental Health — 6 ECTS; Surgery — 8 ECTS; Gynecology and Obstetrics — 6 ECTS; Medicine — 9 ECTS; General and Family Medicine — 6 ECTS; Pediatrics — 7 ECTS; Final Internship Report — 12 ECTS

OPTIONAL

1st to 6th year - 1st and 2nd semester

Code	UC	ECTS
11197	Projeto de Investigação	3

2nd and 3rd year - 1st and 2nd semester

Code	UC	ECTS
11131	Ética e Biomedicina	3
11168	Introdução à Medicina Regenerativa	3
11170	Língua Gestual	3
11164	Medicina Desportiva	3

2nf, 3rd and 4th year - 1st and 2nd semester

Code	UC	ECTS
11130	Alterações moleculares em cancro	3
11200	Introdução à redação e à publicação científica	3
11169	Medicina Evolutiva	3

2nd to 5th year - 1st and 2nd semester

Code	UC	ECTS
11230	Metodologias de Investigação Translacional	3
11227	Toxicologia Humana e Genética	3

3th to 5th year - 1st and 2nd semester

Code	UC	ECTS
11232	Dispositivos Médicos	3
11135	Global Health	3
11233	Medicina 4.0	3
11182	Tele-saúde e tecnologias de informação em Saúde Pública	3

4th and 5th year - 1st and 2nd semester

Code	UC	ECTS
11196	Avaliação psicossocial e psicoterapias em medicina	3
11201	Escrita de casos clínico-patológicos	3
11192	Imunoterapias inovadoras	3
11216	Introdução à medicina do viajante	3
11215	Medicina legal e ciências forenses	3
11228	Metodologias de Investigação Clínica	3
11226	O laboratório nas doenças autoimunes	3

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of the syllabus the student must acquire the necessary competences for the professional practice of Medicine such as:

Data collection in the various clinical situations; Elaboration of clinical reasoning in order to formulate provisional and definitive diagnoses;
Clinical decision-making;
Development and deepening of autonomy skills in order to allow a careful selection of lifelong learning pathways;
Development of competences in the field of clinical research in the formulation and execution of studies and in the communication of results to the scientific community and the general public.

PROFESSIONAL OUTLETS

The doctors trained by NMS will have as their main professional outlets the clinical career (hospital, general and family medicine), public health, legal and occupational medicine, but they can also embark on the career of Research and Teaching.