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Master´s Degree in Biomedical Sciences

Education objectives

The Master in Biomedical Sciences seeks to respond to new problems and challenges facing this century in order to:

1- Allow access contact and effectively to modern and current syllabus.

2- Include new themes that allow unequivocally contribute to achieving the "Millennium Goals" to health.

3- To strengthen the practice, and theoretical and practical teaching / learning by improving the efficiency of acquiring skills directly related to the professional objectives of the course.

General characterization

DGES code

9512

Cicle

Master (2nd Cycle)

Degree

Mestrado

Access to other programs

Enables the continuity of training, at the level of the 3rd cycle of studies, in any area of Life and Health Sciences.

Coordinator

Ricardo Manuel Soares Parreira

Opening date

October 2024.

Vacancies

20

Fees

3000 euros

Schedule

Thursday and Friday, from 1:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Teaching language

Mostly in Portuguese. Some CU may be taught in English.

Degree pre-requisites

Duration: 2 years (4 academic semesters).
Total credits: 120 ECTS for the achieve of the master degree (60 in curricular units + 60 in the preparation of the dissertation).

Conditions of admittance

Consult the Course Regulations available at www.ihmt.unl.pt/education/ciencias-biomedicas-Master/

Evaluation rules

Evaluation Regulation available at www.ihmt.unl.pt/servicos-academicos/. Each curricular unit (CU) is evaluated according to the criteria established by the Teacher in charge, which are available in the section "Evaluation method" in the "General characterization" tab of each CU. The academic degree of the Doctorateis given a final classification in the range of 10-20 of the entire numerical scale from 0 to 20, as well as its equivalent in the European scale of comparability of classifications. The calculation of the final classification is obtained by weighted arithmetic average by the number of credits.