Start of activities: 2016
Degree: academic master’s and Ph.D.
Total credits: 24 credits for master’s / 36 credits for Ph.D.
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About the program
Created in 2016, the Graduate Program in Pediatrics: Child and Adolescent Care is based on the quality of the faculty and on the existing facilities of UFCSPA and the Santo Antônio Children’s Hospital, linked to the Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Porto Alegre. The focus of the program is the training of critical professionals in the field of Pediatrics and related areas, capable to work connecting teaching, research and health care.
Graduate profile
Pediatrics Program graduates will be able to work in centers of excellence, being capable of developing rigorous and articulated scientific research. Throughout the program, students will be encouraged to develop their own training, aligned with a spirit of technological innovation and aimed at improving the quality of life of the population. Graduates will also be able to work in governmental and non-governmental organizations linked to child protection.
Infrastructure
In addition to the vast academic and practical experience of the faculty linked to the program, UFCSPA is also fully integrated with the structure of the pediatric hospital provided by the Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Porto Alegre, located in the same geographic space of the university campus. Students will have access to laboratories of several areas installed in the institution, as well as a statistical and epidemiological research support unit.
Focus area
Pediatrics: development, environment and disease
Reseach lines
- Mental health, development and environment
- Diagnostic methods and epidemiology of diseases
- Prevalent diseases and clinical therapeutics
- Primary health, prevention and health management
Courses
Mandatory Courses
- Epidemiology of diseases in childhood and adolescence (45h - 3 credits)
- Ethics in research (15h - 1 credit)
- Fundamentals of biostatistics (45h - 3 credits)
- Research planning (30h - 2 credits)
- Teaching practice (30h - 2 credits)
- Pediatric research seminars (60h - 4 credits)
Optional Courses
- Congenital anomalies (30h - 2 credits)
- Methodological basis and conceptual structure in pediatric oncology (15h - 1 credit)
- Advanced biostatistics (30h - 2 credits)
- Child and adolescent development (15h - 1 credit)
- Language and developmental disorders in children and adolescents (15h - 1 credit)
- Pediatric infectious diseases: microbiology and health impact (15h - 1 credit)
- Pediatric acute respiratory diseases (15h - 1 credit)
- Pathophysiology of the fetus and the newborn (30h - 2 credits)
- Gastroenterology in pediatrics (30h - 2 credits)
- Hepatology and liver transplantation in pediatrics (30h - 2 credits)
- Informatics applied to health (45h - 3 credits)
- Methods of nutritional diagnosis in pediatrics: advances and limitations (30h - 2 credits)
- Experimental models for use in biomedical research (30h - 2 credits)
- The impact of respiratory diseases on children’s health (15h - 1 credit)
- Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) in pediatrics (30h - 2 credits)
- Evidence-based otorhinolaryngology (30h - 2 credits)
- Clinical research (30h - 2 credits)
- Atmospheric pollution and health (30h - 2 credits)
- Quality of care in pediatrics (15h - 1 credit)
- Physiotherapeutic rehabilitation in childhood chronic illnesses (30h - 2 credits)
- Writing and critical reading of a scientific article (15h - 1 credit)
- Seminars in clinical microbiology (30h - 2 credits)
- Advanced topics in development (15h - 1 credit)
- Advanced topics in research (30h - 2 credits)
- Organ donation and transplantation (30h - 2 credits)
Admission and scholarships
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