O diretor da Faculdade de Medicina da ULisboa, João Eurico Fonseca, revelou que o programa de mestrado está na fase de “instalação e criação”, no âmbito do projeto europeu Erasmus Mundus.
Além da ULisboa, o mestrado vai juntar a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, a Universidade de Ciência e Tecnologia de Macau (MUST, na sigla em inglês) e a Universidade Humanitas, em Milão.
O programa de dois anos “visa criar uma linguagem comum em pessoas que têm licenciaturas ou em medicina ou outras áreas próximas”, explicou o diretor.
O objetivo é formar “facilitadores da investigação de translação, portanto, de passagem do laboratório para a prática clínica, de investigação clínica, de empreendedorismo, de ligação às empresas”, acrescentou o especialista.
The dean of the ULisboa Faculty of Medicine, João Eurico Fonseca, revealed that the master’s program is in the “setup and development” phase as part of the European Erasmus Mundus project.
In addition to ULisboa, the master’s program will bring together the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), and Humanitas University in Milan.
The two-year program “aims to create a common language among people who hold bachelor’s degrees in medicine or related fields,” explained the dean.
The goal is to train “facilitators of translational research – that is, the transition from the laboratory to clinical practice, clinical research, entrepreneurship, and industry collaboration,” he added.
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The students will receive training at at least three of the four institutions that will be part of the future master’s program, emphasized Fonseca, who also serves as director of the Rheumatology Department at the Santa Maria Local Health Unit.
Fonseca was speaking at the end of a trip to Macau that included a meeting with MUST regarding the master’s program, as well as meetings with the University of Macau (UM) regarding the creation of the region’s first public medical school.
MUST, a private institution, has had a Faculty of Health Sciences since 2008, which was officially renamed the Faculty of Medicine in 2019.
The agreement regarding the UM School of Medicine will be signed “next week in Lisbon” by the rector of ULisboa, Luís Ferreira, and the rector of the University of Macau, Song Yonghua, said João Eurico Fonseca.
Song Yonghua will be part of the delegation accompanying the Chief Executive of Macao, who will visit Portugal and Spain from April 17 to 23, on his first overseas trip since Sam Hou Fai took office in late 2024.
“We are truly at the end of this entire process, in which the Agency for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) will participate during the validation phase,” said João Eurico Fonseca.
Doctors trained at the future UM School of Medicine, scheduled to open in 2028, will also be able to obtain recognition from ULisboa and thus practice in Portugal, the official confirmed.
But Fonseca emphasized that, for this to happen, UM medical degree graduates will still need to write a thesis to complete the integrated master’s program at ULisboa.
In January, UM announced that the future School of Medicine will have 4,000 students at the institution’s new campus, which is being built in the special economic zone of neighboring Hengqin.
