Curricular Structure

The entire curriculum structure is centered on the research lines, with few core courses and an extensive list of elective courses, allowing a more individualized curriculum that meets the supervisor – student partnership goals and reduces the time of student training.

The main challenge of the curricular proposal of the IDOR Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences was to promote the insertion of students from different backgrounds in research and education activities, facilitating the acquisition of new skills and a solid interdisciplinary training in clinical and basic healthcare research.

The IDOR's researchers/supervisors have a multidisciplinary and innovative profile in their research lines combining mathematical, biological and clinical knowledge in many projects, encouraging a broad scientific reasoning.

The student is subjected to courses that are well integrated into their lab research activities or healthcare practices. The purposeful intention is to bring students closer to their research project through theoretical information and practical activities, giving them the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and learn from experienced researchers from related fields.

The presentation of seminars, group discussions, intensive cycle of national and international lectures and close supervision of the supervisor are the main lines of the curricular proposal of the Program that aim to welcome the student into scenarios of great interaction with the scientific environment of the Institute.

It is also expected that the PhD student has an important role in the organization and participation of events and formal and informal activities related to the life of the Institute as seminars, workshops, journal clubs, happy hour, among others.

In summary, the curricular proposal of the IDOR Doctoral Program seeks to provide a flexible disciplinary structure and a broad articulation with other training components, guaranteeing intensive training in scientific foundations and in strategic ethical and bioethical procedures so that the student can lead a healthcare interdisciplinary and innovative work.

Innovative Training Experiences

A bioinformatics, biostatistics and health economics platform is being structured at the Institute to develop various actions in support of research, data collection and analysis, clinical protocols and education and training activities. The students of the program will directly benefit from this initiative which will also offer a formal course in the program.

The IDOR New Business and Technological Innovation Nucleus (NIT) will offer educational programs that familiarize the student with the projects and experiments that are in progress with partner companies, arousing interest in the applicability of scientific knowledge.
The course Scientific Divulgation aims, by means of workshops, to introduce students into material production, text and video editing, use of and access to the Internet for the purpose of disseminating scientific news of major importance to society.

Encouragement of student mobility through scientific exchanges, provision of courses taught in English and the frequent visits of foreign researchers at the Institute are other strategies used to broaden the student's performance and attract foreign students.