Doctoral Programme of the Academic Medical Centre of Lisbon
Doctoral Programme of the Academic Medical Centre of Lisbon
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Lisbon School of Medicine (FMUL), the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) and Santa Maria University Hospital (HSM-CHLN) have recently formed the Lisbon Academic Medicine Center (Portaria n.º 1371/2009 of 27th October), a consortium that aims at promoting the development of the academic dimension and the excellence of clinical practice, the modernization and development of research, medical education and innovation in health sciences. CAML intends to ensure the indispensable compatibility of medical education and research with the development of the healthcare mission, renewing the concept of the university hospital.
In the scope of this consortium the FMUL, the IMM and the HSM-CHLN have designed a joint doctoral program: the CAML Doctoral Program. A program centered on research projects of excellence, which includes a flexible and modular training component.
The CAML PhD Program, being research oriented, aims to stimulate clinicians to formulate new questions regarding patients and diseases and to bring them to the laboratory. And reciprocally to bring questions from the laboratory into clinical practice. By bringing together medical and non-medical researchers, the program stimulates new collaborative approaches and more effective communication between basic and clinical researchers.
The three institutions, FMUL, IMM and HSM-CHLN, have actively participated in the conception of the PhD Program, using existing resources and creating new synergies to create an attractive and motivating environment for physicians and researchers to develop their PhD theses. The program is managed by a Board of Directors and Scientific Committee, both composed of representatives from the three institutions.
The CAML PhD Program, being research oriented, aims to stimulate clinicians to formulate new questions regarding patients and diseases and to bring them into the laboratory. And reciprocally to bring questions from the laboratory into clinical practice. By bringing together medical and non-medical researchers, the program stimulates new approaches to collaboration and more effective communication between basic researchers and clinicians.
This program intentionally focuses on research and proposes a very flexible curriculum structure that can be adapted to candidates from different medical and related fields as well as allowing students to choose between full or part-time study. In this way, individual pathways are created that best fit the profiles of the doctoral candidates.