The Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and the Centro de Medicina Laboratorial Germano de Sousa have signed a collaboration protocol for the implementation of a laboratory for the teaching of Laboratory Medicine.
The protocol, signed at UCP on June 27 between the two institutions, aims to implement a laboratory for the teaching of Laboratory Medicine, fully equipped by the Germano de Sousa Laboratory Medicine Center and with faculty members belonging to the same Center, in order to provide the students of the Catholic Medical School, the teaching of this discipline, in a fully integrated model, throughout the medical course.
At the signing of the protocol, the Dean of the Catholic University of Portugal, Isabel Capeloa Gil, expressed her "gratitude to the Germano de Sousa Group for the partnership with the University, and the recognition due to Professor Germano de Sousa, for his support in the creation of the Catholic University School of Medicine, both internally, as a member of the Higher Council, and publicly, by always having taken a position to defend this project.
About the protocol now signed, the administrator of the Germano de Sousa Group, Maria José Rego de Sousa stressed that "these are two entities of recognized value that are coming together to increase the quality of teaching at the Catholic University School of Medicine," adding that "Germano de Sousa's competencies are laboratory medicine and it was therefore important that students grow up in an environment where they could learn laboratory diagnosis and live it."
A partnership that in the words of the Director of the Faculty of Medicine at UCP, António Medina de Almeida represents a "very great innovation in teaching, which is the possibility of having a diagnostic laboratory, accessible to students from the 1st year, and that allows not only contact with results, but also with diagnostic techniques, representing, in this way, an added value, because without diagnosis we have no disease and without disease there is no treatment."
The Integrated Masters in Medicine at the Catholic University of Portugal has six academic years, taught entirely in English. With a completely innovative curriculum, and resulting from a collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Maastricht, an institution of international prestige.
The Germano de Sousa Laboratory Medicine Center is a Clinical Pathology Laboratory of the Germano de Sousa Group, which has more than 45 years of activity and is strongly established in Portugal. Its pillars are based on the values of its founder, who knew how to combine the high scientific and medical knowledge with the ability for clinical governance and innovation that allowed it to always be ahead of its time, looking to the future with confidence, at the service of patients and doctors, in the complexities of clinical-laboratory diagnosis.
