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News # 2 | dec. 2008

Editorial Note

This second issue of News@fmul coincides with the Christmas festive season and the coming of the New Year. For this reason I will begin by wishing everyone the traditional Christmas greetings and wishes for a New Year full of personal and professional success. As a transition between the year now ending and the new one approaching, this issue will to some extent reflect a stock-taking of what has taken place and a prospect for the future. The difficulties of the present times do not go unnoticed, and although they are not exclusively financial and economic, they have a relevant impact […]

FMUL News

Academic Medical Centre of Lisbon (CAML)

On the 8th of December the 54th anniversary of the Santa Maria Hospital was celebrated. The date was marked by several ceremonies: a homage to the professionals working at the hospital (a tree was planted for each of the collaborators who died in 2008), a Solemn Mass celebrated by the Reverend Tomáz Numes, Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon and Vicar General of the Diocese; inauguration of the new premises of the Clinical Pathology Services – Centralisation of Laboratories, and the inauguration of the new Intensive Care Unit and Neurosurgery Service Operating Block; official launching of the project for the construction of […]

Statutory Assembly

J Alexandre Ribeiro Institute of Pharmacology and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, and Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon Email: jaribeiro@fm.ul.pt Following the approval of the Statutes of the University of Lisbon, in accordance with legislation contained in the RJIES (Juridical Regime of the Higher Education Institutions), all of the units of the University of Lisbon will have to revise or make new statutes in order to conform to the statutes approved. For this reason, the Faculty of Medicine was requested to elect its Statutory Assembly, which is now made up of: Teachers and Researchers: Full Members: Professor João Lobo […]

Herpes Virus Research

Sofia Marques and Pedro Simas Viral Pathogenesis Unit Institute of Microbiology and Institute of Molecular Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of Lisbon Author Summary Persistent viruses present a major challenge to the immune response. Gamma-herpesviruses are a prime example, and the archetypal family member, Epstein-Barr virus, has been studied for many years. A major unanswered question with EBV is why long-term virus loads – a key pathogenesis outcome – vary so widely between individuals. As most EBV studies are necessarily descriptive, the murid gamma-herpesvirus, MuHV-4, provides an important focus of pathogenesis research. In this study (PLoS Pathogens 4(10): e1000177) we […]

Restructuring of Careers in the Civil Service

Rui Miguel Gomes / Isabel Aguiar Divisão Administrativa rgomes@fm.ul.pt Of particular relevance within the scope of the programme of Civil Service reforms is the new regime of contractual links, of careers and remunerations of the workers in the civil service, according to the Law nº 12-A/2008, of the 27th of February. One of the main principles underlying this reform is that of the reduction of the number of existing careers, in order to only foresee special careers in the cases in which the specificities of the content and the functional duties, and also the training or qualification required, clearly justify […]

Introduction Week – First Year of the Integrated Masters in Medicine

Editorial Team news@fm.ul.pt For the second year in succession, with the implementation of the new curriculum, the first year of the Integrated Masters Course in Medicine began its training with the Introduction Week, an integral part of the study plan for this year. The week took place from the 29th of September to the 3rd of October, in the Main Auditorium of the Egas Moniz Building. Given that from the 2004/2005 academic year onwards there has been a Cooperation Protocol between the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) and the University of Madeira for teaching the first […]

News Report / Profile

Advanced Training Institute

Advanced training and post-graduate medical education are also a priority aim for the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL). In keeping with this aim, the FMUL has organized training programmes leading to an academic qualification, namely Masters and PhD, as well as other activities that do not lead to an academic degree, designated as Refresher and/or Improvement Courses.The Advanced Training Institute (IFA) is the FMUL structure that, in the areas of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences and Health Sciences, centralizes the organization and operating of these training activities.The structural and methodological alterations introduced into Higher Education through the Bologna […]

The IFA Office of Continuous Training

The IFA Office of Continuous Training Carlos Perdigão Professor of Cardiology at the FMUL Coordinator of the IFA Office of Continuous TrainingContinuous Medical Training Continuous medical training, understood as lifelong training, is a need that doctors feel for permanent updating of the knowledge and skills they acquired as undergraduates and that they will apply in their clinical activity, research or even as new teachers. This updating has an obvious reflection on the community, given that it allows an improvement of health care provided to the population. For this reason, in the report by the Permanent Committee of European Doctors, continuous […]

Events

FMUL Welcome 2008/09

Lilia Louro (llouro@fm.ul.pt) Sofia Cruz (scruz@fm.ul.pt) Sónia Barroso (sbarroso@fm.ul.pt) FMUL Welcome 2008/09 With yet another academic year on the doorstep and new students entering the FMUL, the need was felt to welcome them and support them so that they may be integrated into our institution. Faced with this need, before the present academic year begins, the Faculty organized a new initiative with the aim of having a week to receive the around 350 students who came to the Academic Services to effect their enrolment physically, but which took place on-line (for more informations see here). The students newly arrived at […]

11th WORKSHOP “EDUCATION THROUGH SCIENCE”

Bureau for Scientific, Technological and Innovation Research Support (GAPIC) gpaic.mail@fm.ul.pt On December 2nd last the 11th “Education through Science” workshop was held at the FMUL, organised by the GAPIC. This event dedicated to scientific research carried out by undergraduate students had about ninety participants, including students, teachers and researchers. Present at the opening session were the President of the Scientific Council, Professor H. Bicha Castelo, the Coordinator of the GAPIC, Professor Ana Sebastião, and the President of the Students’ Association, Gonçalo Envia. Over the four workshops sessions there was the presenting and public discussion of the results of the 21 […]

Inaugural Session of the Sixth Year Clinical Training Period 2008/2009

Ana Paula Pereira Alcina Silvestre Nucleus of Curricular Management Tel: + 351 21 798 51 28 (Ext: 44104) E-mail: ggc@fm.ul.ptOn the 10th of October last, at 10 am, the Inaugural Session of the Sixth Year Clinical Training Period in the Integrated Masters Course in Medicine was held in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL).This year the FMUL had the presence of the Representative of the Order of Doctors, Dr. Pedro Nunes, who informed all the students and those present about the Order’s position. On the table at the session were also the […]

More and Better

EBM Databases: Evidence-Based Medicine

New Subscriptions through FMUL/HSM Cooperation in 2008 UpToDate and DynaMed CDI-Library (Bibl@fm.ul.pt) Following an efficient policy of income management and a sharing of resources, the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine (FMUL) joined the Santa Maria Hospital (HSM) to set up two EBM – Evidence-based Medicine – subscriptions for support for clinical decisions, which are now available on the IPs of both institutions, or externally through VPN access. In this manner the conditions have been created for all those interested to be able to access the information based on the best evidence and carefully reviewed by experts in each specialty, such as, for example: […]

“The Memory of Medical Teaching throughout the Centuries – the Simão José Fernandes Holding”

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, the successor and natural heir to one of the first institutions of Portuguese university medical teaching, holds a very vast and valuable historical heritage. A substantial part of this heritage is to be found in the CDI-Library, including a documentary holding of considerable historical interest (with particular relevance for the nucleus of old books, with around 5,000 tomes), that we consider to be worthy of the institution’s efforts towards its preservation, conservation and divulging. Considering the financial investment demanded by this project, the CDI-Library has directed its attention to the entities […]

Research and Advanced Education

Advanced Medical Training

Prof. Doutora Leonor Parreira Director Gulbenkian Programme in Advanced Medical Training On the 6th of October last, at the FMUL/ Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) the educational component of the first edition of the Gulbenkian Programme in Advanced Medical Training (PGFMA) began, a PhD programme specifically aimed at clinical doctors. The PGFMA is a Gulbenkian initiative which has been joined by the Champalimaud Foundation and will be open for three consecutive years, accepting 10 clinical doctors (specialists and specialty interns) per year, 5 full-time and 5 part-time. The programme offers the candidates admitted an excellent scientific training in biomedical and […]

Inaugural Sessions

António Santos, antoniosantos@fm.ul.pt Maria João Paulo, mpaulo@fm.ul.pt Institute of Advanced Training (+351) 217985107 The opening of the 2008 / 2009 academic year of the Masters Courses at the FMUL was marked by the diversity of opening lessons during which we had the honour and privilege to receive illustrious academic personalities: MASTERS AND PhD COURSES IN NEUROCIENCES The Opening Lesson of the Masters and PhD Courses in Neurosciences was held on the 16th of October in the Almeida Lima Amphitheatre, delivered by Professor Fernando Lopes da Silva, on the subject: “New Views on Epileptogenesis: Interactions between Molecular Genetics, System Neurophysiology and Clinical […]

Academic Examinations held at the FMUL

October 2008 Masters: Neurophthalmology Thesis “Trigeminal Activation and Ocular Autonomic Dysfunction After Stimulation of the Posterior Hypothalomus” Raquel Santos Gil Gouveia 15th of October 2008 President of the Jury: Professor António Castanheira-Dinis, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Orientator: Professor Luís Silva Carvalho, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Jury Member: Professor Adelino Leite Moreira, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oporto Result: Very Good. Nineteen on Twenty. Clinical Microbiology Thesis “Evaluation of Mosaic Structures in Clinical Strains of Chlamydia Trachomatis” Carlos Alberto Lopes Florindo 20th of October 2008 President of the Jury: […]

Institute of Advance Training View of the Technical-Administrative Management Services

Paula Saraiva psaraiva@fm.ul.pt Division Head of the Institute of Advanced Training +351217985107 The systematic scientific development and progressive technological advances verified in the area of medicine and related sciences over the last decades have made it essential to create new infrastructures in medical institutions that will allow health professionals to develop their professional skills and adapt their clinical practice to new procedures and ways of acting. In this context, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) continuing its policy of post-graduate training, set up since 1988/89 by the Bureau of Post-Graduate Studies (GEPOG), founded the Institute of […]