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News # 9 | out. 2009

Editorial Note

Message from the President of the Students’ Association

The beginning of the present academic year is in itself a symbolic moment of the ending and starting of two eras in the life of our beloved Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. It closes a period of transition to the Curricular Reform that started in 2007, with this being the first academic year in which all the students are covered by the restructuring that the faculty underwent. There was great scepticism and initial fear around the implementation of this change in the FMUL teaching philosophy – as indeed some of the longest-lasting of us will remember from […]

FMUL News

The Faculty of Medicine establishes closer relationships with the Federal University of Minas Gerais

Professor J. Fernandes e Fernandes, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), went on the 11 of September last to the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil, in order to meet Professor Francisco Penna, the Dean of the UFMG. The aim of the meeting was to tighten links between the two institutions, which will possibly include the signing of a protocol between the two schools which, in the words of the Dean of the FMUL, “Might last a year or a semester, according to equivalences and compatibilities”. For more […]

Caixa Geral de Depósitos Card (CGD) and Banco Espírito Santo Card (BES)

Starting from this academic year the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) student card is common to the whole University of Lisbon, and is sponsored by the Caixa Geral de Depósitos Bank. This card also functions as a student ID card for the FMUL and the University of Lisbon, and should always be carried by students. Hopefully in the near future it will have other applications associated to it, which will be announced soon. This card may or may not be a bank card, depending on the student’s options. The BES Card is an access card in […]

External Evaluators visit the IMM

On the 29th of September the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) received the visit of two external evaluators within the scope of the University of Lisbon’s participation in the Institutional Evaluation Programme, carried out by the European University Association. The visit was the result of the interest expressed by the evaluators in talking to IMM researchers about issues related to the research and training carried out at the Institute. The evaluators met the executive director of the IMM, Professor Maria do Carmo Fonseca, some main researchers, and also talked to students from the IMM PhD programme. A. Lee Fritschler, Professor […]

FES 2009 International Conference

“Financing Higher Education: the current crisis and future prospects”. The international conference entitled “Financing Higher Education: the current crisis and future prospects” was held in the noble hall of the Chancellery of University of Lisbon on the 12th and 13th of October. The first day of work was dedicated to the subject “Financing Higher Education from the Institutions’ Viewpoint” and the second day dealt with “Financing Higher Education in the Students’ and Families’ Perspective”. Over the two days it was possible to attend several talks distributed over six debate panels: 1st Panel – Financing Higher Education: challenges posed by the […]

News Report / Profile

University of Lisbon Social Action Services (SASUL)

The University of Lisbon Social Action Services (SASUL) is the entity that has a mission to carry out the social, cultural and sports activities defined in the applicable legislation for school social activities in higher education, according to what is set out in law and in the statutes of the University of Lisbon, aiming at providing its beneficiaries with the best conditions of study and training. In order to carry out its mission, SASUL grants direct and indirect support, as well as coordinating several activities leading to the well-being of the academic community. The direct supports are the awarding of […]

From the Degree in Microbiology to the Degree in Health Sciences

In 2004-2005 the University of Lisbon (UL), through the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Sciences, with the collaboration of the Faculty of Pharmacy, began a degree course in Microbiology which lasted four academic years. The aim of the course was to train a fully qualified microbiologist. The educational aims were to grant each student multi-potential preparation in microbiology that would prepare him to freely and autonomously exercise the specialty, as well as to be qualified to participate in any post-graduate training in this area of knowledge, along with other like professional opportunities. The training of the multi-potential microbiologist […]

Degree in Dietetics and Nutrition

The Degree in Dietetics and Nutrition was created after a proposal by the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon in 2004, and is a part of the scientific area of Health Sciences, lasting four academic years. Indeed, nutrition is fundamental to maintain life and development. Malnutrition associated to illness is documented in a high proportion of hospital patients and out-patients, being associated to greater morbility and mortality, with it being accepted that nutrition is not only relevant to maintain health and growth, but also to prevent chronic illnesses and promote health, and it is […]

Integrated Masters in Biomedical Engineering

Coordination of the Integrated Masters in Biomedical Engineering, (2) Higher Technical Institute, Technical University of Lisbon and (1) Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon General aims of the course in “Integrated Masters in Biomedical Engineering” Biomedical Engineering (EBM) is a multidisciplinary field that includes several different Basic and applied sciences. EBM includes physics, chemistry mathematics and computer science, as well as the principles of engineering in order to study biology, medicine, behaviour and health. It establishes fundamental concepts; it creates knowledge from the molecular level to the level of organs; it develops materials, processes, and biological implants, innovative […]

Events

Welcome to the FMUL 2009/10 – Reception and First Year Student Enrolment

One of the aims for the beginning of the academic year that has been adopted by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) is to welcome its new students as well as possible, and is thus organized in order to provide them with a welcome and integration into the institution of which they will be a part over the next years. So, just like last year, the FMUL once again received its new students, guiding them through the enrolment process and giving them relevant information. The students were helped from the outset by “Fmulito” the owl, the […]

Introduction Week to the Medicine Course

Int he week of the 28th of September to the 2nd of October classes began for the first year with the Introduction Week to the Medicine Course which took place in the Main Auditorium of the Egas Moniz Building. This week is a part of the compulsory curriculum nucleus of the study plan for the Course in Medicine, and, under the coordination of Professor J. Fernandes e Fernandes and Professor J. Lobo Antunes, it intends to let students know about the syllabus of the course and the services that exist for them in the Faculty, as well as dealing with […]

More and Better

BOSOM FRIENDS – Humanitarian Association for Support for Women with Breast Cancer

The association was formed on the 11th of April 2008 at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisboa, by means of public deed, in the Administrative Council of the Hospital. The founding members were: Dr Adalberto Campos Fernandes, Professor Henrique Manuel Bicha Castelo, Dr Emília Vieira, Dr Maria da Conceição Valente Patrício, Professor Luís António Marques da Costa, Dr Marília Maria Liberato Jorge Lemos, Professora Maria Isabel de Freitas Ferreira Queimado Grilo, Alice Tavares Leitão Ascensão Luís, Sister Maria das Dores de Jesus Martins, Angelina dos Anjos S. L. do Carmo, Maria do Céu Faísca Diogo Ramos, Professor Manuel do Rosário Caneira […]

Book of the Month

Dear Users of the CDI Library, Access the book of the month for October here André Rodrigues CDI Library / Preservation and Conservation Nucleus (Bibl@fm.ul.pt) Tel.: 21 798 51 32 | Ext.: 44 172

Research and Advanced Education

Grunenthal Pain 2008

Basic Research Prize attributed to work describing new drug with analgesic properties A multidisciplinary team made up of researchers from the Institute of Molecular Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) and from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC) / Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oporto (FMUP) was awarded the Grunenthal Pain 2008 – Basic Research Prize for their work describing the conception, synthesis and testing of a new drug with analgesic properties. The results of this work have already led to the registering of a patent and to European financing for […]

Advanced Training at IMM

The Communication and Training Unit (UCOM) of the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) is complementary and transversal to the research units. This unit focuses on three themes: communication; funding and advanced training, each coordinated by a PhD researcher. The aim is to approach areas, which although not generating scientific knowledge, are vital for research, in a dedicated and professional manner, and to allow the remaining researchers and respective units the time for “their science”. The UCOM team has six people who have opted for a career in science communication and management. We work in the “backstage of science” supporting researchers […]

Academic Exams carried out at the FMUL

Masters Bioethics Subject of Thesis: “Medical Decision in Intensive Care – An Analysis in the Light of the Philosophy of Values” António José Marques dos Santos find out more Subject of Thesis: “Integrity of the Person: Ethical Founding for the Donation of Organs and Tissue for Transplanting” Marta Raquel Dias Barcelos find out more Child and Adolescent Victimisation Subject of Thesis: “Ill Treatment – Attitude of Technicians from the Protection Committees” Paula Helena Loução Paulo Sarreira Nunes de Oliveira find out more Clinical Microbiology Subject of Thesis: “Five years of Prevenar – impact of conjugated vaccine 7 – in the […]

Moments

European Enotuorism Day – Muscatel Festival promotes Regional Nectars

Palmela was chosen to be the “City of Wine 2009”, and has carried out a vast variety of annual events dedicated to the culture of wine. One of the high points, and which also marks the closing of the “City of Wine 2009” programme, will be the Muscatel Festival, which takes place on the 8th of November in the Largo de S. João square and in the premises of the Rota de Vinhos association in Palmela. This festival – which marks the European Enotourism Day – takes place between 10 am and 10 pm, and is based on tasting and […]

Open Space

It wasn’t just worth the effort, it was worth the joy

Seven years is twenty percent of my life. I can still remember coming into the messy, cluttered-up corridor where the administrative services of the faculty were located, with my “permit” in my hand and someone turning round and saying to me from the end of the corridor, “students’ business is further down, this is for staff and teachers”. This was my welcome to the faculty. I was a boy, with a boyish face, tennis shoes and jeans, but with my heart full of ambition and with the fear befitting someone moving to something they hardly know (now I would say […]

Contrasting Summer Training Courses

From the UK to Turkey I was very happy when I found out I had been placed in the UK, in Nottingham, for a clinical interchange, when I was in Paris on the Erasmus programme. The opportunity to do a training period in such a prestigious country, and to meet other students from around the world, was a promising prospect. And it lived up to my expectations. Nottingham is a small, charming city, known as being the birthplace of Robin Hood. Despite having an impeccable transportation network, it wasn’t necessary to use it, as the distances between the centre, the […]

YES Meeting 2009

The YES Meeting, a captivating condensing of Young European Scientist Meeting, held its fourth edition last September in the city of Oporto. After three editions of unanimous success, YES is back, bringing everything it has always represented to Oporto, “the unconquered city”: young people, several different nationalities, debates on current issues and social activities, setting them perfectly well within the unmistakable and unique academic and social spirit of the city of Oporto. This annual event brings together students from several different degree course to discuss science, and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) was, as is […]

Blog, the friend of the Masters in Emerging Infectious Diseases

This Masters course was born in 2003. It was called Emerging Infectious Diseases. At that time no one imagined that over time others with the same surname would be born. Perhaps thanks to the coronavirus, which appeared and rapidly caused disease in several thousand people (2003) [1]. But over its short lifetime the Masters course had to live alongside other emerging diseases: plague in Algeria (2003) [2], Ebola in the Sudan (2004), yellow fever in Mali (2005) [3], plague in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), cholera in Luanda, Angola (2006) [4], Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the […]

In Praise of

The Academic Services and the Treasury hereby publicly make praise of the Honourable Secretary Coordinator, Dr. David João Varela Xavier, at a time that is a mixture of joy and sadness, given the notice of the end of his mandate. Joy, because we know that he is going to a place that will afford him new challenges and possibilities of Professional promotion; sadness because he leaves a gap that will be very difficult to fill. A secretary who demonstrated solid and balanced leadership, and brought us aims that had long been needed in these areas, aims which he not only […]

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Listening to FMUL

Platform for Monitoring Access to Medicine FMUL (2000 to 2009)

The Platform for Monitoring Access to Medicine is an initiative by the Planning and Evaluation Office (GPA) and originated in the use and integration of data worked periodically by this office relative to access to Portuguese medicine courses and an operationalising of internal databases and those of the University of Lisbon (UL). This publication is a pioneer work in the UL as it allows one to see a national ranking (access to Medicine) counterpoising results from one faculty to other similar institutions on the national level. The aim of the platform is to identify indicators that allow one to (i) […]

Profile of Candidates for IFA Advanced Training in the Academic Year 2009/2010

The Advanced Training Institute is starting the 2009-2010 academic year with specialisation courses, 2nd cycle (Masters) and 3rd cycle (PhD). The candidature period has not yet closed; we have the course in Nutrition with candidatures taking place from the 1st to the 30th of October 2009. Of the courses for which the candidature period has now closed, we had 213 candidates distributed over the nine available courses, as can be seen in Table 1. The distribution of the candidates by sex is, like over previous years, mainly made up of females. In relation to the distribution of the candidates by […]

Keep in Mind

Competition to the 13th “Education through Science” Programme

Scientific Research Projects for Students 2009/2010 Scientific, Technological and Innovation Research Support Office gapicmail@fm.ul.pt Applications to the 13the “Education through Science” Programme – Scientific research Projects for FMUL Students close on the 2nd of November 2009. Further information on: www.fm.ul.pt/Educacao_Ciencia Any request for clarification by students or tutors should be sent to the GAPIC: Mestre Sónia Barroso Edifício Egas Moniz Piso 0 – Sala 10 Telefone 21 799 94 20 – Telefone interno 47006 E-mail: gapicmail@fm.ul.pt

2nd Course in Paediatric Obesity

31 October 2009 Egas Moniz Building, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) The 2nd Course in Paediatric Obesity, organized by the Department of the Child and the Family of Santa Maria Hospital, will take place on the 31st of October, in the Egas Moniz Building of the FMUL. Further information on: http://www.fm.ul.pt/pub/programa_fora.pdf http://www.fm.ul.pt/pub/programa_dentro.pdf

Deadlines | ENJOY Med – National Encounter of Young Medicine Students

On the 7th and 8th of November 2009 an encounter aimed at all medicine students and inherent areas will be held in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL). The aim is to create a space open to communication among students and guests (doctors, researchers and other noteworthy personalities) which from a pluri-disciplinary point of view might enrich the several activities of the thematic modules (Oncobiology, Clinical Medicine and Neurosciences) of this first edition of ENJOY Med. The deadlines for submitting abstracts is the 22nd of October. Enrolments take place up until the 30th of October, but […]

Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009

On the 5th of October last the names of this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine were announced: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a researcher at the University of California San Francisco, Carol W. Greider practicing at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Jack W. Szostak belonging to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. These researchers will share the Nobel Prize for studies on the protection of chromosomes. The prize, worth ten million Swedish Crowns (984.6 thousand Euros), aims at rewarding “the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and by the enzyme telomerase”, the noble committee revealed. Listen to the interviews given by the […]

The Regulation for the UL Student Purveyor

The Regulation for the UL Student Purveyor was published in the Portuguese Parliamentary Journal on the 22nd of September. The document can be seen here.

The interactive forum on the subject of “The World of Life”

On the 5th of November, from 11 am to 1 pm, in the Auditorium of the Orlando Ribeiro Municipal Library, former Solar da Nora, Estrada de Telheiras, the interactive forum on the subject of “The World of Life” will be held with the conference “A Heart for all Ages: from the desired baby to the active hundred year-old – Manual for Good Health Practices”, which will be given by Professor Fernando Pádua. The event is promoted by the Cultural Reference Office – Interactive Pole of Special Recourses of the Municipal Direction of Culture of Lisbon Municipal Council. http://mundodavida.cm-lisboa.pt