News # 1 | nov. 2008 « News@fmul News@fmul

News # 1 | nov. 2008

Editorial Note

Message from the Director of the Faculty of Medicine

New technologies arise, influence the daily lives of people and institutions, modify habits and customs, create needs and open up new prospects. They are a challenge and an opportunity! The Faculty of Medicine possessed an Agenda, a monthly publication, in which it published news about the institution, its most relevant facts, its administrative decisions that impact on collective faculty life, academic events, distinctions and awards etc. It had a considerable distribution internally and scant external visibility. Besides these facts, its printing and distribution were progressively more expensive, which, at a time of financial restraint, reduced its impact. New solutions were […]

FMUL News

Professor Luís Silva Carvalho

Professor Luís Silva Carvalho, Full Professor at the FMUL and Director of the Institute of Physiology, passed away on the 20th of October 2008. Recalling Luís Silva Carvalho is not just an ethical and moral imperative, but also a duty of respect and admiration for one of the most relevant personalities in the life of the Faculty of Medicine. Luís Silva Carvalho continued a tradition of the teaching of physiology, his father having also been a full professor at our school, and he developed new paths for physiological research in a remarkable manner, namely in the field of the autonomic […]

News Report / Profile

The University of Lisbon, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and the Future

The recent approval of the Statutes of the University of Lisbon (UL) confronts the institution with a series of challenges with implications for the Organic Units (OU) that make it up, as well as for all those who carry out their professional activity in it: teachers, students, researchers and non-teaching staff. Given the pertinence and current nature of the subject, news@fmul asked the Rector of the UL some questions in order to achieve a glimpse to the future of the UL. 1. The new statutes of the UL imply some significant institutional changes. Do you consider that this transition will […]

Events

Outdoor Experience

Outdoor training is an innovative formula for creating deeper relational links among elements in the same institution. Tasks, games, barriers and obstacles are points of departure and arrival: they are means for showing qualities, a medium of learning for dealing with lack of success, overcoming the barriers of failure, to minimise errors, take conclusions from misunderstanding and potential conflicts, to empower greater understanding, to share individual and collective responsibility, to deal with success, to widen the capacity to generate complicity and achievement, to increase the spectrum of collaboration among people in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, which facilitates fitting […]

More and Better

Lisbon Academic Medicine Centre

In Portugal the option for a National Health Service model inspired on the European social model has consolidated the perception from the citizens of the usefulness of a public health service that, despite the high degree of dependence between citizens and state, stands as the best manner of guaranteeing the values of social access, equity and solidarity. The organization of the health sector, founded on criteria of quality and technical and deontological competence, favours the planning, coordination and integration of care. The advantages of a system model should also contribute towards a strict pondering of investments in infrastructures and equipments, […]

Process of On-line Enrolments

The FMUL matriculations/enrolments for the 2008/09 academic year took place entirely online through the SIANET platform, belonging to the Digitalis Company. Its analysis and implementation was developed in accordance with the faculty’s needs, taking into account full integration with the Bologna system. This year the option was to carry out the enrolments in the presence of the students entering the first curricular year, aiming at closer accompanying of the student throughout the whole process. The accompaniment was planned and put into practice by an internal working group that had the active participation of the Academic Area, the Technologies and Information […]

Research and Advanced Education

The IMM in FMUL Research

The Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) is an Associated Laboratory to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and its aim is the exercise and promoting of basic and applied research activities in the area of Health Sciences. It is located on the Egas Moniz Building, and was created in November 2001 as a result of the incorporation of five FMUL research centres, the Biology and Molecular Pathology Centre (CEBIP), the Lisbon Neurosciences Centre (CNL), the Microcirculation and Vascular Biopathology Centre (CMBV), the Gastroenterology Centre (CG) and the Nutrition and Metabolism Centre (CNB), which were joined, in 2003, by the Molecular […]

Education through Science – Research in FMUL Undergraduate Courses

“I consider the hospital to be only a vestibule to scientific medicine, as the first field of observation in which the doctor should enter; but the true sanctuary of scientific medicine is the laboratory.” Claude Bernard (1813-1878) In a society in which knowledge, science and technology walk hand in hand, it is up to universities to promote training and qualification, as well as the development of the scientific and technological system, to promote synergies between teaching and research essential for a scientific culture. Considering scientific research as one of the components of medical education, the FMUL has developed several different […]

Moments

The Port Wine Route

“Breathing, for over 20 years, the perfumed atmosphere of our southern climate and drinking, all this time, from the font itself, the predilection of British tables, the genuine Port Wine – that nectar, the aroma of which even more than that of our atmosphere, is pleasing to English pituitaries, Mr. Richard Whitestone could not, or rather, these influences with all the other bewitching attractions of our land, had not yet managed to achieve from Mr. Richard Whitestone two important results: the adopting of the habits of the peninsula life against which he always reacted with the whole inflexibility of his […]

Listening to FMUL

The First Year of the Curricular Reform at Lisbon University Medical Faculty (FMUL)

Showing unusual courage for Portuguese classical institutions, Lisbon University Medical Faculty has joined the current international trend to teach medicine in a more integrated manner. In the 2007-2008 academic year the students who entered the FMUL for the first time began their course of studies with a new curricular model. In this manner the Lisbon Medical School joins Harvard Medical School and several other US, European and Asian schools in putting into practice a new plan for medical teaching. The new integrated curriculum model replaces the traditional teaching of the past, centred on an intensive calendar of predominantly theoretical […]

Students’ Adaptability to the Curricular Reform of 2007-2008

The process of reform of the medical curriculum in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) began in the 2007-2008 academic year, involving the first, second and fifth years, and it will be completed by the academic year 2009-2010.The decision to undertake a new reform of medical teaching at the FMUL arose from the need to modernise our teaching model, bringing it closer to what is being practised in the most noteworthy European schools, and was preceded by a process of external assessment by an international committee presided over by Professor Fernando Lopes da Silva from the […]

Keep in Mind

México Science and Technology Award

Applications by November 14 2008 More information: http://www.ccc.gob.mx/ (Information: GAPIC – Office of Support for Scientific Research, Technology and Innovation)

Grunenthal Pain Award 2008

Applications by November 15 2008 More information: www.grunenthal.pt (Information: GAPIC – Office of Support for Scientific Research, Technology and Innovation)

On the Frontiers of Life Sciences Research Programme

Applications until November 15 2008 More information: www.gulbenkian.pt (Information: GAPIC – Office of Support for Scientific Research, Technology and Innovation)

IMM SEMINARS – November 2008

Title: “Novel components of JAK/STAT signalling pathways identified using FACS-based siRNA screens” Host: João Barata Monday, 17 November, 01.00 PM Edifício Egas Moniz – Anfiteatro 57 – Piso 01 Ana Costa-Pereira – Imperial College, London

Food Bank Against Hunger

Enrolment of Volunteers for the Campaign of the Food Bank against Hunger, November 29 and 30 The FMUL is adhering to this initiative through the organisation of volunteer groups. Our participation will take place at the Minipreço supermarket in Lisbon in Av. Guerra Junqueiro, on the 29th and 30th of November. Anyone wishing to participate should send their availability and contacts to the following e-mail: armoreira@fm.ul.pt; mpaiva@fm.ul.pt; imca@fm.ul.pt. Come and participate and feed this idea!

11th “Education through Science” Workshop

The 11th “Education through Science” Workshop, organised by the Office of Support for Scientific Research, Technology and Innovation (GAPIC) will take place on the 2nd of December 2008, at Cid dos Santos room. The event programme involves: – Presentation of the Results of the 21 Projects carried out in the scope of the 11th “Education through Science” Programme, by 35 students, in 11 research units, during the 2007/2008 academic year. – Lecture on “Truth Records: scientific truth and others” by Professor Michel Renaud from the Faculty Of Humanities and Social Sciences (to be confirmed). – Presentation of the results of the project “Genetics […]

Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008

On the 6th of October last the names of the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year were made public: the French researchers Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the award for the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the AIDS virus (VIH) and the German researcher Harald zur Hausen, for the discovery of the Human Papiloma Virus (PVH), associated to the appearance of cancer of the neck of the uterus. The prize will be awarded on the 10th of December, and the prize of one million Euros associated to it will be shared over the two discoveries, half a million for […]