Integrated Master’s Degree in Veterinary Medicine
Egas Moniz School of Health & Science
Key Information
Campus location
Monte de Caparica, Portugal
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
6 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 12,333 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* non-European students (Fees for 2023/2024, to be updated in 2024/2025)
Introduction
The study plan for the Integrated Master in Veterinary Medicine at Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IMVM-IUEM) is based on an innovative logic, based on teaching that aims for integration, specialization, professionalization, internationalization and globalization and values global health, underlying the importance of the relationships between animal health, human health, and environmental health (One Health).
The curricular units are distributed in modules throughout the semester, ensuring the acquisition of contents in sequential and integrated logic. This study plan and innovative teaching methodologies are based on other European and World reference institutions and contrast with the one currently used in other national and international veterinary schools, contributing to enhancing the multiple professional opportunities and employability in Veterinary Medicine.
The IMVM-IUEM is based on rigorous teaching, with a very strong practical component and tutorial guidance, based on Problem-Based Learning, in which students take a central role in their learning process. This ensures a very solid clinical and practical experience and provides our graduates a real and global view of the realities of Veterinary Medicine, enabling them with real practical skills from day one.
The IMVM-IUEM will be taught in its own facilities (Campus Egas Moniz), which include, among others, clinical structures, such as a Veterinary School Hospital for Companion Animals, Exotic Animals, Horses and Livestock, and teaching and research laboratories. All infrastructures were designed specifically for the teaching of Veterinary Sciences.
The IMVM-IUEM has a vast network of partnerships with external public and private institutions, that are part of the pedagogical and scientific cooperation network, in the various areas of knowledge of Veterinary Sciences. These partnerships aim to achieve the level of excellence, integration, and specialization that characterizes this Integrated Master's in Veterinary Medicine by allowing students to access and contact external facilities of excellence in the different areas of Veterinary Sciences.
What makes us unique
The study plan includes unique characteristics in teaching Veterinary Medicine in Portugal:
- The IMVM-IUEM is taught in English, allowing the globalization of teaching and the internationalization of students. Here, students are trully evolving in a multicultural and international context. There is no equivalent alternative in Portugal.
- With a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary integrated curricular model, this study plan is innovative and based on Veterinary Medicine teaching methodologies differentiated from other offers in Portugal, ensuring a more logical and sequential understanding of the subjects taught. Here, subjects are taught in an integrated way – each curricular unit integrates a multidisciplinary approach for every body system so that the student has an integrated understanding of each theme. This is the only Veterinary Medicine course taught in this way in Portugal and one of the few in Europe. The study plan followed in the IMVM-IUEM is identical to reference entities in the teaching of Veterinary Medicine at European and World levels.
- It is an eminently practical higher education degree, in which the student takes a central role in the training process, under a close tutorial orientation based on Problem-Based Learning, ensuring an efficient acquisition of skills.
- The student has the possibility of specializing in his/her training throughout the course. In addition to the final internship, optional curricular units, and professional orientation internships throughout the course, during the 5th year, students will be able to choose and guide their own curricular path in the four major areas of Veterinary Medicine: Companion Animals Clinic, Equine Clinic, Livestock Health Management, and Veterinary Public Health Responsibilities. Thus, students will have the possibility to make choices in the area(s) of their greatest interest throughout their learning path, in a course that, despite offering the possibility of specializing in learning, guarantees general basic training in all aspects of the Veterinary profession. Also in this aspect, the IMVM-IUEM will be the only Veterinary Medicine course in Portugal and one of the few in Europe that offers this possibility.
- The last 3 semesters of the IMVM-IUEM are trully professionalizing, as students spend a large part of their contact hours in a real working context, with tutored guidance, taking extramural classes.
- IMVM-IUEM is deeply anchored in the practice of One Health and adapts the students trained to the needs of the real and challenging global market, giving them a clear competitive advantage compared with the other offers in Portugal.
It should also be noted that Animal Welfare is deeply valued throughout the entire training, using strategies to optimize contact with patients, with closed tutoring and previously prepared by using simulators and models, thus eliminating unnecessary exposure to animals exclusively for teaching purposes, both in the pre-clinical as in the clinical phase of training. However, contact with real patients, of all species, in a clinical environment is valued and is part of the eminently practical teaching of this degree.
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Curriculum
Year 1
- Introduction to Animal Organism
- Animal Organism I - From Molecule to Cell
- Animal Organism II - From Cell to Tissue
- Animal Organism III - From tissue to the organism
- Genetic fundamentals: from the genome to the population
- Veterinarian and Society
- Professional Orientation I - clinical and research laboratory
- Animal Body Function I
- Animal Body Function II
- Animal Body Function III
- Animal behavior
- Introduction to Diagnosis
- Plant Biology, Agriculture and Environment
- Scientific thinking
- Exognosis
Year 2
- Animal body function IV
- Animal body function V
- Animal body function VI
- Animal body function VII
- Economia, Gestão e Marketing / Economics, Management and Marketing
- Fundamentos de Imunologia / Immunology fundaments
- Microbiologia, Infeção, Imunidade / Microbiology, Infection, Immunity
- Orientação profissional II - Produção Animal e Espécies Pecuárias / Professional Orientation II - Animal Production and Farm Animals
- Optional I
- Animal body function VIII
- Animal body function IX
- Animal body function X
- Parasitology, Infection, Immunity
- Pharmacology and Therapeutics I
- Animal Nutrition
- Professional Orientation III / Animal Production and Farm Animals
- Opcional II / Optional II
Year 3
- Integrated Clinical Reasoning I
- Animal Feeding
- Hygiene and Food Safety
- Food and Animal Products Technology I
- Pharmacology and Therapeutics I
- Analgesia and anesthesia
- Professional Orientation IV - Companion Animals and Equine
- Optional III
- Integrated Clinical Reasoning II
- Epidemiology
- Food and Animal Products Technology II
- Toxicology
- Animal Welfare and Protection
- Fundamentals of Pathology and Pathological Anatomy
- Professional Orientation V - Companion Animals and Equine
- Optional IV
Year 4
- Medicine and Surgery I
- Medicine and Surgery II
- Medicine and Surgery III
- Medicine and Surgery IV
- Veterinary Sanitary Responsibilities I
- Zootechnics I
- Medicine and Surgery V
- Medicine and Surgery VI
- Medicine and Surgery VII
- Medicine and Surgery VIII
- Medicine and Surgery IX
- Medicine and Surgery X
- Veterinary Sanitary Responsibilities II
- Zootechnics II
Year 5
- Companion Animals I **
- Equine I **
- Management and Health of Livestock I **
- Specialization Module - Applied Veterinary Public Health I **
- Companion Animals Applied Clinic I
- Equine Applied Clinic I
- Management and Health of Livestock I
- Applied Veterinary Public Health I
- Companion Animals II **
- Equine II **
- Management and Health of Livestock II **
- Applied Veterinary Public Health II **
- Companion Animals Applied Clinic II
- Equine Applied Clinic II
- Management and Health of Livestock II
- Applied Veterinary Public Health II
** Specialization Module
Year 6
- Externship
Program Outcome
The general objective of IMVM-IUEM is to provide an excellent, integrated, and professionalizing higher education in Veterinary Medicine, always articulated with the One Health perspective, ensuring the appropriate training in the major areas of veterinary activities, including Clinic, Public Health, Animal Production and Technological Processing, Sanitary Inspection and Health Support at the interface of Animal Production, Quality, Environmental and Sanitary Control, Teaching and Research in Veterinary Sciences.
The curricular program of this challenging and innovative academic training has more specific objectives:
- Promote animal healthcare;
- Promote animal welfare;
- Contribute to the management, improvement, and development of animal production systems;
- Prevent, diagnose, and control zoonoses and enzootic diseases;
- Ensure the quality of food products of animal origin;
- Contribute to environmental protection;
- Promote and develop scientific research activities.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
When you finish the IMVM at IUEM you will be able to work in the following areas:
- Companion animals clinic;
- Equine clinic;
- Farm animals clinic;
- Exotic and wild species clinic;
- Animal production and breeding;
- Animal nutrition;
- Biotechnology and diagnosis;
- Sanitary Inspection;
- Food quality of products of animal origin;
- Hygiene, Technology, and Agro-Food Safety;
- Veterinary Public Health;
- Epidemio-surveillance;
- Education and Training;
- Scientific research.