Objectives

• To teach Paediatrics, general or subspecialties, at the Integrated Master's Degree, Master's Degree and Doctoral Degree levels.
• To maintain and improve basic and clinical research in different paediatrics areas, through research projects, some with financial support from national or international entities.
• To provide paediatric health care to the population, through the clinical work of collaborators, in the Integrated Paediatric Hospital of São João Medical Centre.

Competences

The Paediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine of Porto University is involved in:

• Teaching
  • Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine: Paediatrics (5^th year) and Paediatrics - Clinical Practise (6^th year) Curricular Units
  • First cycle in Nutrition Science of the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of Porto University: Paediatric's Food and Nutrition (4^th year) Curricular Unit
  • Collaborative work in several Doctoral Programs.
• Scientific research and publications
• Collaboration with regulatory organs of FMUP
• Involvement in clinical healthcare and research at São João Medical Centre

Department members

The Paediatric Department includes all teaching and research staff and physicians working in the Integrated Paediatric Hospital.

Activities

Undergraduate pedagogic activity

Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine

Postgraduate pedagogic activity

Scientific and research activiy

Most researchers are involved in the Cardiovascular Research and Development Unit.

Facilities

The activities of the Paediatric Department are mostly developed inside the facilities of the Integrated Paediatric Hospital, at São João Medical Centre.

Autonomy

• The Paediatric Department has autonomy to manage the human, material and financial resources given by the Faculty of Medicine of Porto University, and its own resources, as well, according the statutes of the Faculty.
• Resources of the Paediatric Department:
  • The budget allocations from FMUP;
  • Those provided by the rights of intellectual or industrial property;
  • Income resulting from own property or which it benefits from;
  • Those ones from selling publications;
  • The product resulting from the sale of goods, when permitted by law and by the FMUP director, as well as any other patrimonial elements namely those that have no use or are expendable/not needed;
  • Subsides, subventions; grants, donations, inheritances and legacies;
  • The credir of the management account from the previous years;
  • Any other that may legally be raised.