Luís Castelo-Branco, a doctor who graduated from the University of Algarve, will present the book «Practical Clinical Skills and Preparation for OSCE», on a methodology for evaluating the teaching of Medicine. The presentation will take place tomorrow, October 4th, at 18:15 pm, in the Green Auditorium (building 8) of the Campus of Gambelas.
This book is the first work of its kind written in Portuguese and has the participation of more than 100 physicians, including vice-coordinators, authors, directors and reviewers, some of whom are renowned national experts from across the country.
The prefaces are written by José Manuel Silva, President of the Medical Association, by José Ponte, first director of the Integrated Masters in Medicine at the University of Algarve (MIM/UAlg), together with Pedro Marvão, current deputy director of the same masters.
The afterword is signed by Manuel Sobrinho Simões, a renowned professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. The work has the scientific seal of the Medical Association.
The ceremony begins, at 17:30 pm, with a lecture and debate on the «Future of Medical Training and Evaluation» and will have guest speakers Drew Tarmey, from Manchester Medical School and Carlos Cortes, coordinator of the National Postgraduate Council of the Medical Association.
The moderation will be in the hands of José Ponte, founder of the Integrated Masters in Medicine at the University of Algarve.
The session will also feature interventions by António Branco, rector of the University of Algarve, José Manuel Silva, president of the Ordem dos Médicos, and Isabel Palmeirim, director of the MIM.
The presentation of the book is scheduled for 18:15 pm, which, in addition to Luís Castelo-Branco, also has the collaboration of several doctors trained by the Algarve Academy.
At the end of the ceremony, several cooperation protocols will be signed. A Specific Pedagogical Cooperation Agreement will be signed between the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine of the University of Algarve, a protocol between the Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC) and the Academic Medical Center of Lisbon (CAML) ).
Finally, Fernando Araújo, Deputy Secretary of State and Health, will be present at the signing of the protocol between the National Palliative Care Commission of the Ministry of Health and the University of Algarve.
About the book:
This is the first work of its kind in Portuguese on the OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Exam) methodology and aims to prepare current and future students as well as all physicians for the practice of clinical skills acquired throughout their academic career. Despite the OSCE being an assessment methodology widely used in Anglo-Saxon countries, it is still little applied in Portugal, so this release intends to contribute to its wide use in Portuguese medical teaching institutions.
«In addition to the practical aspects, what most seduced me, as a professor of Medicine and tutor of Pathological Anatomy interns, in the work of the more than one hundred professionals who accompanied Dr. Luís Castelo-Branco on this true adventure, was the ability to distinguish the essential the accessory (and having the courage to include communication in the essential side) and the dismay with which the issue of teaching clinical skills is addressed throughout the book», says Manuel Sobrinho Simões in the book's afterword.
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