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News # 91 | Jun. 2019

Editorial Note

Se é filho de peixe, o mais certo é saber nadar

Diz o provérbio português, na tentativa de justificar que muitos são os filhos que seguem as pisadas dos pais. Geralmente com perfis profissionais semelhantes, o carimbo entre eles é certamente mais denso que apenas um gosto comum profissional, mergulhando mais a fundo, são os traços de personalidade e a genética que também questionamos. Mas estarão todos estes elementos ligados para explicar por que razão pode um peixe ser padrão dos seus antepassados? Num mês em que damos especial atenção à última lição da Professora Maria do Céu Machado, fomos perguntar à sua filha Catarina Gouveia se ser Pediatra é uma […]

FMUL News

Renewal of Managing Positions at AEFML (2019/2020)

On June 12, at Aula Magna, the Governing Bodies of the Student Association at FMUL (AEFML) have taken office for 2019/2020. Among those present was the Director of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Fausto J. Pinto, the Sub-Director, Professor Ana Sebastião, the Executive Director at FMUL, Dr. Luís Pereira and Professor António Vaz Carneiro, among other lecturers, family and friends of the new members. During her last speech as President of AEFML, , Andreia Daniel made the words of Luís Sttau Monteiro her own and said: “We are all summoned, at least once, to perform a role that is bigger […]

“Gastro” and the Scientific Societies

The healthcare professional dedicated to activities related to diseases of the Digestive System is many times referred to by the nickname “Gastro”, or the “Gastros”. It is an honour and a pleasure to direct the destination of the Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology for the next two years. This would not have been possible without my Training in the School of Life, which are the two institutions where I’ve worked for the last three decades, i.e., the Santa Maria Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. In all my connections, I’ve always felt the excellent, door-opening, brand […]

Antigo Sanatório do Barro vai dar origem a campus na área da saúde

O edifício do antigo Hospital Dr. José Maria Antunes Júnior, situado perto do Barro, que desde 2015 está encerrado e devoluto, vai dar origem a um espaço também dedicado à área da saúde, denominado Torres Vedras Health Park for Multidisciplinary Care. Tratar-se-á de um espaço de referência dedicado à prestação de cuidados assistenciais, à formação de profissionais da saúde, ao ensino e à investigação em Medicina e em outras Ciências Biomédicas. O protocolo para a criação deste equipamento foi assinado hoje, dia 28 de junho, no espaço do referido edifício, envolvendo a Câmara Municipal de Torres Vedras e a Faculdade […]

News Report / Profile

Who is the new AEFML President?

José António Jacinto Rodrigues, who was born in Guarda, arrived in Lisbon in 2015 to pursue an Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine. On 12 June 2019, he was elected President of the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine Students’ Association. He admits that there isn’t exactly a script for this position. While still undergoing a phase involving transition and adaptation to his new post, José Rodrigues (JR) is happy to share with us a few more personal details: his liking for reading, sports, more specifically football, and recently tennis. At times, while he even opens a bottle of wine on the terrace […]

Doctors run in Miguel’s family

Miguel Brito Lança is a Med. school student whose life is deeply rooted in history and tradition. He agreed to interrupt his continued study sessions for a stage of exams that only end on 12 July, to come and talk to me. He agreed to do so because he shows pride when talking about his family heritage and which he gets from Beja, his birthplace. Before getting to know each other, I asked how we would recognise each other at first glance. To me, it was obvious right away that, waiting for me, seated on a bench in the hallway, […]

Events

Who are the faces behind a PhD

The Faculty of Medicine recently received the visit of the Minister of Sciences, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, who opened the 13th edition of the Annual CAML PhD Students’ Meeting. In a brief contact with the organisation, always controlled by the students working on their PhDs, I met Filipe Cortes Figueiredo. Communicative, spontaneous and not less formal when the topic so demands, I asked him to provide a balance of two days of this renowned Meeting that not only gathers important personalities of Science and Healthcare in Portugal, many of them working at CAML, but also serves as showroom […]

Maria do Céu Machado, os passos até à última aula.

We met without a prior appointment, because there were about 3 weeks until her lecture. She’s early and waiting for us because for her things must be done on time and with time. She wants to review the invitations, confirmations, the details of the venue and talk about the plan outlined to ensure that everything goes smoothly. “I’m sure everything will be alright”, I say, with the firm belief that some things will always work out. “We may have a spotless career, but if we fail on our last day, that’s what people will remember”. “That’s impossible”, I think, but […]

O ritual da Bata Branca como um processo de crescimento

Chama-se “Cerimónia da Bata Branca” e marca o momento em que o aluno do 3º ano de Medicina, passa a vestir formalmente a sua bata branca. Esta cerimónia acontece já pela quarta vez na Faculdade de Medicina, este ano decorreu no dia 3 de junho, na Aula Magna. Numa organização partilhada com a Associação de Estudantes, este momento formal de sensibilização e celebração da transição para o ciclo clínico do percurso do Estudante de Medicina, é um projeto levado a cabo pelo Grupo de Trabalho de Direitos Humanos e Ética Médica da ANEM (Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Medicina). Este […]

More and Better

Mentoring Ambassador

Last March, April and May, the Mentoring Project associated itself with the Boomerang Project, in which dozens of students from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon returned to their primary and secondary schools with the aim to give lectures on Mental Health and Consumption. This partnership emerged after the last few editions of Boomerang, due to the need to answer the questions asked by students who were about to enrol in higher education institutions. The Mentoring Ambassador is like a bridge between the university world and the experiences of compulsory education; the fact that trainers and students […]

iMM João Lobo Antunes, CCUL e ISAMB obtêm excelentes resultados na Avaliação das Unidades de I&D da FCT

No passado dia 24 de junho foram publicados os resultados do processo de Avaliação das Unidades de I&D*, no âmbito do Programa Plurianual de Financiamento pela FCT. Candidataram-se a este processo de avaliação 348 unidades de I&D. Um total de 19.418 investigadores. De acordo com os resultados publicados, 64% destas unidades tiveram uma avaliação de Excelente (31%) e Muito Bom (33%). No campo da Biomedicina e Biologia Molecular, o Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM), obteve a avaliação de Excelente tratando-se de “organização de pesquisa extraordinária e extremamente impressionante”. O painel de avaliadores tece elogios aos diretores e […]

Research and Advanced Education

30 anos em prol da Ciência – Concursos GAPIC 2019

O GAPIC (Gabinete de Apoio á Investigação Científica, Tecnológica e Inovação) celebra 30 anos e nada melhor e mais significativo do que têm sido estes 30 anos do que promover os seus habituais concursos, tendo em vista despertar e estimular o interesse dos estudantes e jovens médicos pela investigação. Programa “Educação pela Ciência” | Bolsas CHULN/FMUL Projetos de Investigação para Alunos Pelo 23.º ano consecutivo, o Programa “Educar pela Ciência” proporciona aos estudantes de medicina a oportunidade de participarem diretamente no desenho e execução de projetos de investigação laboratorial ou clínica numa das unidades do CAML (FMUL/iMM/HSM), integrados numa equipa […]

Publicações Científicas (FMUL / HSM / IMM) maio – junho | 2019

A Newsletter pretende, neste espaço, dar aos seus leitores uma perspectiva da produção científica realizada no Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, que inclui a Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, o Hospital de Santa Maria e o Instituto de Medicina Molecular – João Lobo Antunes. Para aceder ao texto integral dos artigos, deverá estar conectado à rede da FMUL. As bases de dados utilizadas foram a Pubmed e a Web of Science. Para aceder ao documento em PDF, clique aqui. André Rodrigues Área de Biblioteca e Informação andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Professor Rui Victorino – refletindo sobre o Programa de Doutoramento do CAML

Habituado a fazer a integração de todas as áreas clínicas, Rui Victorino é o excelente exemplo pessoal disso. Atualmente diretor do Serviço de Medicina II do Hospital de Santa Maria, é de formação Médico Internista, com especialidade em Medicina Interna. Área cada vez mais integradora de cuidados médicos, a Medicina Interna acaba por dar a visão geral do estado de saúde de um doente, em contraponto com outras áreas de especialidade, cujo foco é mais microscópico sobre uma determinada patologia. “Cada doente internado, num Serviço de Medicina Interna, tem uma média de 8 patologias diferentes”, explica-me, “isso justifica uma necessidade […]

iMM Corner

Why does the brain stop communicating with the body?

The search for answers continues to motivate the Molecular Medicine Institute, which promoted on June 19 at the Grand Auditorium João Lobo Antunes the 3rd session of the iMM Horizon Talks: a question in three parts. This session’s topic was Parkinson disease and, as usual, a physician, a researcher and a patient were invited to answer the question. The session had a full house, not only for the topic’s relevance, but also for the homage paid to the late Professor João Lobo Antunes, who would’ve celebrated another birthday this month. Why does the brain stop communicating with the body? – […]

II NeuroSeS Session

The second session of the lunch-meetings NeuroSeS (Translation Neuroscience) took place on May 14 and was attended by 60 people. The discussion topic was “Does physical exercise improve cognition? – Methodological challenges of clinical trials” presented by neurologist Ana Verdelho: 1) Recent data on the evolution of the European ageing population (OCDE 2019) were presented, as well as its potential repercussion in the evolution of dementia. While there is no curing treatment for dementia in sight for the next few decades, recent publications have suggested the prevention of neuronal lesion throughout human ageing as a potentially beneficial measure. 2) Physical […]

Moments

Paediatrician Catarina’s mother is a Paediatrician herself.

She often comes to the waiting room to get the little ones. Other times she waits for them at the door, as if half distracted, so they don’t think this medical visit is too important. She uses her coat as an accessory and does not make it an obstacle to the empathy she so naturally develops. In reality, she welcomes the little ones who take their toys to Paediatrics. This is where Catarina always begins, listening to the heartbeats of teddy bears and rubber babies, and this is how she continues with the kids and so remains coherently to the […]

From the Past to the Present

The Teaching of Medicine (Part II)

When the Roman Empire was invaded by the Barbarians, between the years 300 and 800, some of the religious orders during the Middle Ages collected and preserved a large part of Greco-Roman culture, namely countless medical manuscripts. This contributed toward the Church’s strong influence on the development of Medicine at that time. Monastic medicine was simple and popular. Monks not only used medicines extracted from medicinal plants grown in the monasteries’ gardens, but they also founded inns and small hospitals next to the monasteries where they could examine their patients. One of the most prestigious monasteries was that of Monte […]

Keep in Mind

Medical Volunteers International | Collecting Goods

From July to September, Sebastião Castanheira Martins, a 6th-year student at our Faculty, will travel to Greece as a volunteer with the Association known as Medical Volunteers International. This work will be conducted between Salonika and Lesbos. Medical Volunteers International is responsible for providing primary health care to newly-arrived refugees. After crossing the Mediterranean, there are those who arrive with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Medical Volunteers International thus seeks to provide the best care to anyone requesting it while donating essentials that are still lacking. In this regard, it is organising a drive to collect the following […]

Prémio GAPIC David-Ferreira | GAPIC, 30 Anos em prol da Ciência

Mais informações aqui

30 anos a apoiar a Ciência – Cursos GAPIC 2019

+INFO Gabinete de Apoio á Investigação Científica, Tecnológica e Inovação gapicmail@medicina.ulisboa.pt

O Dia que é por direito da FMUL – SAVE THE DATE

É um dos dias mais importantes da nossa casa. O Dia da Faculdade de Medicina. E se juntarmos ainda o facto de ser também o momento em que se comemora o 70.º aniversário do Prémio Nobel Egas Moniz, médico neurologista, galardoado em 1949 pela técnica de leucotomia pré-frontal, então a data torna-se obrigatória na sua agenda! Dia 16 de setembro marca assim o começo do ano académico e recebe, com ilustres convidados nacionais e internacionais, relatos e reflexões sobre o único Nobel da Medicina Português e que também foi Diretor da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa. Tome nota, venha celebrar connosco!