The Integrated Masters in Medicine (MIM) of the University of Algarve has open applications for its 9th edition, until the 6th of February.
This course, centered on an innovative learning method, Problem Based Learning (PBL), is for graduate students only (for more information, click here).
The structuring model of the course is the PBL and, unlike traditional pedagogical models, it uses a real case and deconstructs it to its essence. In doing so, it takes students to study the basic and clinical sciences, but in an integrated way, in the context of the clinical case and much closer to the reality that future doctors will find in hospitals and health centers.
Contact with patients starts in the second week of classes and is constant until the last day of the course.
In the first two years, students spend one day a week in various health centers in the Algarve, developing a fundamental contact with what should be the center of medical training: Primary Health Care.
In the last two years (3rd and 4th) hospital rotations have started and students are daily in the hospital context, integrated in the medical teams of the various clinical services.
MIM UAlg students do not only have contact with hospitals in the Algarve, they are always looking for the best training guarantees in the rest of the country. These four years of clinical rotations have another unique and exclusive feature: a one-to-one ratio between student and tutor clinical, which is always an asset.
MIM-UAlg has varied and modern clinical models/simulators that allow you to practice, safely simulating many of the clinical procedures that a doctor has to master and that, later, will be applied in real situations in the internships.
During the course, students are also faced with an enticing challenge: to undertake an Elective, which should be a medical internship in a different reality from that in which they are normally included, in medical areas different from those they come into contact with in their curricular internships, preferably outside Portugal .
Students follow this principle to the letter and, for eight weeks, they will carry out their elective to places as diverse as India, Timor, Brazil, United States, Israel, United Kingdom, among others, where they have the opportunity to observe and practice medicine in countries with apparently so different cultures and beliefs.
For the edition of the academic year 2017/2018, the Integrated Masters in Medicine at the University of Algarve has 48 places available.
More than 200 doctors trained at UAlg have trained in public hospitals in the Algarve, and many of these are already practicing their profession in hospitals in the region.
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