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After the proposal was unsuccessful in December last year, the Portuguese Catholic University insisted again and has now seen the design of its Medicine course accredited by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES). Will be the the first time the course will be taught by a private university in Portugal.
The announcement was made this Tuesday at the end of the night, via Twitter, by Isabel Capeloa Gil, dean of the institution, and confirmed this Wednesday morning to the Observer by António Medina de Almeida, head of the course. “A great day for Higher Education and for the national scientific system”, welcomed Capeloa Gil on that platform.
The Medicine course at the Catholic University has just been accredited by A3ES. A great day for Higher Education and for the national scientific system. #MedicineUCP
– Isabel Capeloa Gil (@CapeloaGil) September 1, 2020
even if negative opinion of the Medical Association, which last year publicly ruled against the university’s proposal, the new proposal presented by the university has already been approved, one of a total of 12 with the same claim that in the last ten years were addressed to A3ES.
Medicine in Catholic: “We meet all the requirements. We are ready to move on “
“Last year, the proposal we submitted was not approved due to concerns about the feasibility and quality of the proposal. We changed the proposal, in accordance with the suggestions of the Accreditation Agency and the Order of Doctors, so that the proposal this year was clearly in line with what was suggested to us, so our course was approved based on the quality of the course. that we are going to propose, ”António Medina de Almeida told Rádio Observador, declined to comment on the number of doctors in Portugal and the system’s ability to absorb new graduates.
“This is no longer our competence, it is a postgraduate competence, of the National Health System, of the Order of Physicians, of specialized schools, which we cannot supply as a faculty. What we want to do is have a high quality medical course in Portugal to be able to train doctors for Portugal and the world, who can continue their careers as they want. In addition, it is like all the higher education courses that we have: there may not be a job market, but the important thing is that the universities give the students tools so that they can continue the careers they want ”.
Regarding the specific course, the director of the Catholic School of Medicine explained that “Very student-centered methodology, in which learning is based on problem solving” to the detriment of “passive education”. “From the first year they already have clinical training and from the third year they have contact with patients,” added the head of the course.
“Our students will be inserted in the hospital and health center teams and this insertion in the teams will be done with few students per team, so that they can really participate in the day-to-day of the team and not just be observers,” he added.
However, at the end of the morning, through Linkedin, Isabel Vaz, general director of the Luz Saúde group, announced that the Hospital da Luz, in Lisbon, “will be the partner of the Catholic University in the first private medical course in Portugal ”.
Listen here to António Medina de Almeida’s ready response:
“The Catholic Medicine course will be very practical with clinical training in the first year”
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