NOVA Medical School

General

NOVA Medical School (NMS|FCM) celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2017.

NMS|FCM is an academic unit of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and it currently has 1.719 students in the Integrated Master Degree in Medicine and 726 postgraduate students. It has a total of 533 professors and researchers.

The strategy of gradual integration of foreign teachers and researchers, combined with the number of international postgraduate students (12%) and mobility students (6%) reveals not only the opening of the Faculty abroad, but also the international projection it has been acquiring and which it intends to strengthen in the future.

In 2018 NMS|FCM reached, for the third consecutive year, the 1st position in the ranking of admissions to Higher Education, in Medicine, in the Lisbon Area. Also, 81,4% of the students chose NMS|FCM as their first option.

The new Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition Sciences, which opened the last school year for the first time, obtained the highest national access, along with other courses from NOVA and had 60% of students placed in the 1st option.

t is the Medical School with the best teacher/student ratio (1/3) in the clinical years in Portugal and its students have had excellent results in the exam of access to specialty.

NMS|FCM is associated with several health units, allowing a variety of teaching environments and a more comprehensive knowledge of hospital reality and primary health care. Furthermore, the University Medical Centre of Lisbon (Centro Médico Universitário de Lisboa - CMUL), which is a Consortium between NMS|FCM and Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central (CHLC), grants the students of NMS|FCM a better and more integrated clinical training.

Research is another case of success in our Medical School. The School’s Research Facilities hold the Library, the Clinical Competence Training Center (NOVA MedSim), CEDOC - Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas (Chronic Diseases Research Center) and TOXOMICS - Centro de Toxicogenómica e Saúde Humana (Centre for Toxicogenomics and Human Health).

NMS|FCM was recently awarded with the Ministry of Health Gold Medal for Distinguished Services.

In July 2015, NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas and Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central (CHLC) signed the consortium that created the University Medical Centre of Lisbon (Centro Médico Universitário de Lisboa - CMUL). This consortium grants the students of NMS|FCM a better and more integrated clinical training, stimulates the development of clinical research and offers better conditions for lifelong learning to the health professionals.

Mobility students

The International Relations Office is responsible for student mobility to and from the NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (NMS|FCM), which is done under:
- The European Lifelong Learning Project, specifically Erasmus.
- As Free-mover clinical clerkships.
- The Santander Portuguese-Brazilian University Scholarships programme.
- Specific agreements between Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Brazilian Universities.

NMS|FCM´s specific Erasmus rules can be can be checked here and additional information can be found in http://www.fcm.unl.pt/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=407&lang=en  also, practical information common to all of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa´s academic units, are available in this guide.

Contacts for Outgoing Mobility:
Email: mobilidade-out@nms.unl.pt
Tel: +(351) 21 880 30 15

Contacts for Incoming Mobility:
Email: mobilidade-in@nms.unl.pt
Tel: +(351) 21 880 30 71

International Relations Office
NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130
1169-056 Lisboa

Student attendance hours:  
Monday to Friday - from 2 pm until 4 pm
For document delivery please use our Post Box, situated in front of Banco Santander

Academic authorities

• Dean Jaime da Cunha Branco
• Vice-Dean, President of Scientific Council Miguel Xavier
• Vice-Dean, Presidente of Pedagogic Council José Alberto Castro Guimarães Consciência
• Vice-Dean António Jacinto
• Vice-Dean Ana Isabel Moura Santos
• Administrator Manuel Salvador Rodrigues Alves

Admission and enrollment

Integrated Master | Medicine

Bachelor´s Degree in Nutrition Sciences

Contacts:
Academic Office - Undergraduate Studies
Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, 1169-056 Lisbon
Phone: +351 21 880 30 01
Fax: + 351 21 880 30 16
academicos@nms.unl.pt

Required paperwork in the Academic Office
- Proxy, if the matriculation is not being made by the student.
- Fotocopy of ID card and Fiscal ID card. (or Citizen's Card).
- A statement from Social Security in case of being part-time student.
- 2 Photographs.
- 4th, 5th and 6th year students:  1st to 10th of September 2010
- 1st year (repeating students), 2nd  and 3rd year students: 20th to 24th de September 2010
- BES student card (only for students from the 2nd to the 6th year).

Practical information

Libraries

Library profile:
It is a specialized library in Medicine, and its related and complementary subjects.

Opening hours:
Regular, during academic period - From Monday to Friday: 9:00 am to 8:00 pm
During school holidays - From Monday to Friday: 9:30 am to 6:00 pm, sometimes reduced due to unusual causes, duly announced.
From a regular cooperation programme with the Students Association, students work as library assistants to support library extension hours.

Users:
Though mainly directed to the Faculty´s members, NMS|FCM library is open to the public in general for on site use.

Premises:
The Central Library of the NMS|FCM is located at the Red Building of the NMS|FCM's Research Pole, Rua do Instituto Bacteriológico, 3.

To provide additional space conditions there are 2 library extensions at affiliated hospitals in Lisbon: one at the Faculty’s building within Pulido Valente Hospital and a small nucleus at Hospital D. Estefânia. There are several computers either workstations or laptops, all with Internet access. There is wireless access at the Library. The digital interface to the Library: BiblioMedConsulta, among general library characteristics, offers specific contents created to provide guidance in information research topics to its users, Faculty´s members and general public as well.

Information sources:
Besides paper documents (books and journals) the library offers most of its electronic information sources on remote access via the Web.
- Textbooks and study books;
- Scientific journals;
- Databases;
- Library OPAC;
- Other search tools;

UNL is a member of B-ON national consortium and NMS|FCM participates in UNL´s cooperative subscriptions, so that the Library offers access to those sources as well.

Services provided:
- Manages document circulation via the usual lending services;
- Orients and guides in locating and getting documents non available in its own collections;
- Orients and guides in information searches;
- Participates in Interlibrary Lending and Delivery Services
- The Library provides several distance services to NMS|FCM users, namely providing difficult located articles.
- The Library also has a sector providing assistance in some bibliometric matters and also offering training in the use of citation managers.

Additional Information:
- The Library is the institutional focal point to collect bibliographic production data of NMS|FCM´s authors.
- The Library participates in some Projects at university level: Information Literacy - Besides cooperating in this university strategic project in partnership with other professional specialists and other Academic Units, the Library also offers Information Literacy sessions to NMS|FCM´s  users namely annual sessions to new first year students.
- The library also orients a specific optional module integrated into the Doctoral Programme.
- Institutional Repository - Within this project, the Library has been promoting several activities aiming to facilitate the participation of institutional authors into the university Repository - RUN.

Library website (in Portuguese language): http://www.nms.unl.pt/main/index.php?lang=pt&Itemid=240

Other equipments

Research Pole
In the Research Pole are located the Research Centers:

1. Research Centers:
   CEDOC - Center for the Study of Chronic Diseases
   TOXOMICS - Center for Toxicogenomics and Human Health
2. Library
3. Laboratories (22)
4. Facilities (3)
5. Imaging units, flow cytometry, histology and cell culture (4 rooms of differentiated culture)

Interchange programs

School calendar

1st Year: 2019-09-16 -> 2020-07-31

2nd Semester: 2019-02-18 -> 2020-07-31

1st Semester: 2019-09-09 -> 2020-02-08