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The Integrated Master of Medicine at the Catholic University will be taught in English, the first in the country taught exclusively in this language, and open to students from all over the world. The course involves a partnership with the Dutch University of Maastricht and the Luz Saúde group.
Al Jornal Economico, Isabel Capeloa Gil, Dean of the Catholic University of Portugal, said that the integrated master’s program is scheduled to begin in the 2021/22 academic year. In the afternoon, in an interview with SIC Notícias, she specified that the training capacity is designed for 100 vacancies, but the understanding of A3ES was that it should start with a smaller number to test and then grow. So it starts with 50 vacancies.
The dean also revealed that the building of the Faculty of Medicine is located on the Catholic campus of Sintra and will receive a “very strong investment in technology.” The base hospital, for its part, is the Hospital da Luz Saúde, within the framework of the alliance with this private business group, which, according to him, refutes the criticisms that come to light in the meantime, “a maternity with greater capacity than that of the Hospital Santa María ”.
The Catholic University is the first non-state institution to offer a degree in Medicine in Portugal. The decision comes, coincidentally or not, a few months after the Ministry of Science and Higher Education authorized public universities to increase the number of vacancies for the training of doctors. However, none did. At that time, Minister Manuel Heitor, who has not yet ruled on the accreditation of the new course, considered that the decision of the universities made clear the need for medical education to be available in other institutions, public or private.
The objective of the Catholic to have a medical course is ancient, it has been dragged in time and has not escaped controversy. Before and now. Last December, the project was rejected by A3ES, which accepted two negative opinions, one from the expert evaluation committee appointed by the agency and a second from the College of Physicians. The University questioned the legality of the lead, filed an appeal and presented a new accreditation proposal, which should be analyzed in June.
In reaction to the A3ES decision, this Wednesday, the Ordem dos Medicos returned to the charge, considering that “politics prevailed in the decision.” The Council of Schools of Medicine of Portugal, which brings together representatives of eight public institutions, also criticized the decision.
The Rector admitted to SIC Notícias to welcome any recommendation made to him. “Anything that is recommendations that can improve the curriculum and performance of this medical course will certainly be welcomed.” And he justified: “What we want is to help strengthen the system and provide quality training to doctors in Portugal, expanding the possibility that more young Portuguese wanting to study medicine can do so in the country and not look for offers. in other countries, offers that are not regulated by the Portuguese Accreditation Agency and that cannot be supervised and evaluated when we talk about future graduates or master’s degrees in Medicine who come to practice in the country “.
He criticized the Council of Faculties of Medicine for the word “trivialization”, used to refer to the authorization of Medicine in a private university. And he said he understood the reaction: “it is a protective reaction, to be expected.” He added that he is interested in the future and “working with the actors of the national scientific system” and that for the sake of Portuguese higher education at a supranational level “we have to stop intestinal wars and narcissisms of small differences and work for what really matters. ”. . He underlined, concluding: “I am sure that what my colleagues from the Faculties of Medicine want is a quality medical education, that is what the Catholic also wants and, therefore, we are united in the same purpose.”
The Catholic University revealed this Wednesday, in a statement, that it was informed of the accreditation of the course by the Board of Directors of the Agency for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) on September 1, news that the dean advanced immediately on Twitter. The document explains that the course differs from “traditional study plans in that it has a more practical and integrated approach from the early years” and a “student-centered methodology”. According to the document, it has “a recognized national and international faculty.”
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