Católica Medical School offers an Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine, with a total of 360 ECTS and a duration of 6 academic years. The programme has the partnership of the Luz Saúde Group and the close collaboration of Maastricht University, the Regional Health Administration of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, the Public Institute, the Beatriz Ângelo Hospital and the Union of Portuguese Misericórdias.
The course aims to prepare and train professionals of excellence in the practice of clinical medicine, endowed with transformative, transversal and transferable skills, acquired on the basis of scientific thinking skills resulting from early research practice on the course.
This training is complemented by the promotion of ethical and humanistic behaviour in the light of Católica humanist principles, and the development of leadership skills so that trainees can be future agents of change in the communities in which they work.
The Medicine course will use student-centred teaching methodologies that foster learning autonomy, with greater retention and depth of knowledge, with proven clinical skills. The course is aligned with the Maastricht University teaching and evaluation model, will have training at the best international level, with top teachers and will be taught in English, with the clinical component in Portuguese. The course will allow access to international training mobility with other leading medical schools.
The completion of the Integrated Master in Medicine requires the completion of 360 ECTS and the programme has a duration of 6 academic years (12 semesters), following Article 3 of Decree-Law No. 74/2006 of March 24, under the language of Decree-Law No. 65/2018 of August 16.
In the first three curricular years, the completion of 180 ECTS corresponds to the first cycle of studies and grants students the degree of Bachelor in Basic Sciences of Medicine. The second cycle of studies has the objective of completing the remaining 180 ECTS, in the last three curricular years, and grants the degree of Master in Medicine.
Higher education in Medicine is regulated at European level, with a view to the recognition of the respective professional qualification among the Member States.
This program is supported by the TRAINING4RESILIENCE project, funded by the European Union (NextGenerationEU), STEAM Youth Impulse and Adult Impulse, as part of the Recovery and Resilience Programme (PRR).