Professor Doutor José Fernandes e Fernandes Diretor da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa The year of 2012 will certainly be difficult for academic institutions: a reduction in the budget of the UL, blocking of revenue and the substantial increase in the cost of goods, energy, equipment etc. are real situations with a negative impact for the fulfilment of the mission and the management of the Faculty of Medicine. The reduction of FMUL’s public budget in 2011, the renegotiation of the teaching contracts with the Air Force and the Navy and a decrease in the demand for advanced training […]

J. Lobo Antunes In recent months, the heads of the Classical (UC) and Technical (UT) universities of Lisbon have been deeply engaged in the possible merger of the two institutions, in fulfilment of a decision emanating from their General Councils. At a time when the need to reorganise the network of university and polytechnic education is generally accepted, this initiative has been very positively received by the schools of both universities. Several factors may contribute to the success of this project. Firstly, the similarity in size, with regard to, for example, budget, number of lecturers, students, and educational programmes. Secondly, […]

The Calouste Gulbenkian Chair was established in May 2011 through a collaboration protocol between the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with the support of the Rector of the UL. It aims to promote knowledge in the fields of humanization and social dimension of Medicine in a multidisciplinary and global perspective, and to strengthen the interface with social sciences and culture. Its primary objective is to strengthen the academic nature of medical intervention, encouraging research, staff training, and the development of new areas of knowledge integration and social intervention. This framework allowed gearing […]

A new public hospital will open in Loures in January 2012 under a Public Private Partnership managed by Grupo Espírito Santo Saúde (Espírito Santo Group – Health). In the context of the management agreement entered into with the Portuguese State, Beatriz Ângelo Hospital will be responsible for providing health care to the population living in the municipalities of Loures, Odivelas, Mafra, and Sobral de Monte Agraço, and, within the national health system, it will work closely with Santa Maria Hospital. In May 2011, a protocol was signed between the Loures Hospital Management Company and the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre, which […]

As part of the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre, FMUL, IMM and HSM-CHLN designed a joint PhD programme: the Doctoral Programme of the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre, which focuses on research projects of excellence and includes a flexible training component by modules. The PhD Programme offered by CAML is research oriented and aims to encourage clinicians to ask their patients new questions and bring them to the laboratory and, on the other hand, to make them take questions from the laboratory back into their clinical practice. By bringing together medical and non-medical researchers, the programme encourages new collaborative approaches and more […]

Francisco G. G. G. da Silva President of the Board of AEFML  Sara Martinho C. Serafino Vice-President of the Board of AEFML  David S. C. Sousa Vice-President of the Board of AEFML  The History of our Faculty dates back over one hundred years with the creation of the Royal Medical-Surgical School in 1825, later transformed into what would become the largest centre for medical education in the country – the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon. Created roughly half way through its history, Santa Maria hospital rose up in the sky as a grandiose building showcasing the aesthetics of the Estado […]

The beginning  The first preliminary programme, led by Architect Teresa Carvalho, is dated March 2000. It envisaged the construction of a Laboratory for Research and Teaching in Medical Microbiology to replace the Câmara Pestana Bacteriological Institute to be given to the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the New University of Lisbon (UNL) and which would be adjacent to the Egas Moniz Building due to the complementary of some areas that had been programmed, namely the vivarium, the classes for theoretical classes and the library. The estimated cost for a total gross area of 7,580 m2, excluding furniture and laboratory equipment, […]

The programme for the 2009-2012 mandate of the Director of the Faculty of Medicine established as a priority objective the promotion of the “administrative modernization” of the Faculty. Of the measures proposed, the following stood out: i) “optimization of human resources bringing together skills and competencies”, ii) development of “differentiated training policy that will contribute to the promotion of excellence in the provision of services through innovation and creativity, essential for the strategic development of FMUL”; iii) encouraging the “participation in technical and administrative development groups within the University of Lisbon as a means of quality assurance and technical reference, […]

J. Martins e Silva Chairman of the General Assembly of AAAFML On the occasion of the swearing in of the members of the governing bodies of the Alumni Association of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon (AAAFML) for the three-year period that is now beginning, the Faculty Director Professor Fernandes e Fernandes invited me to write a brief note about the event for this Newsletter, which I do with pleasure. As I reflected about the topic, I remembered to read what I had written, then as Director of FML, in the editorial of the first issue of the Journal Alumni […]

Encontram-se abertos, por um prazo de trinta dias úteis a contar da data de publicação em Diário da República, concursos para recrutamento de, um Professor Catedrático, na Área das Ciências Funcionais, (Sub-grupo de Farmacologia e Terapêutica), um Professor Catedrático, na Área das Ciências Funcionais, (Sub-grupo de Fisiologia) e um Professor Associado, da Área das Ciências Patológicas e de Diagnóstico, (Sub-grupo de Anatomia Patológica). Os interessados poderão consultar, em baixo, os Editais dos Concursos. Professor Catedrático, na Área das Ciências Funcionais, Sub-grupo de Farmacologia e Terapêutica Professor Catedrático, na Área das Ciências Funcionais, Sub-grupo de Fisiologia Professor Associado, na Área das Ciências Patológicas […]

1. Virtual Registry  During the current academic year, the Academic Unit – Academic Career Management (GPA) will implement a feature – the Virtual Registry – that will enable students to request several academic services that up to now need to be done in person. These services, such as requests to re-sit exams for purposes of upgrading marks or requests of several types of certificates, which require prior registration or request at the GPA and corresponding payment of a fee at the Fees Office, will be able to be requested online and paid for using a reference number for payment at […]