The Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Católica Portuguesa 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.