Subjects
According to the Internal Regiment of the Graduate Program in Health Sciences:
Art. 22º – The duration of the PPGCS will be up to 24 (twenty-four) months for the Professional Master’s Course. During this period, the regular student must fulfill at least eighteen (18) credits, being two (2) credits in compulsory subjects and sixteen (16) credits in optional subjects, besides defending before the examining bank his final work.
Paragraph 1 – The student of Professional Master’s degree must pay his credits until the end of the 3rd term of his admission to the PPGCS, with accumulated income equal to or greater than 75.0.
Paragraph 2 – The Professional Master’s course will be offered in full time, contemplating disciplines in the daytime / night period.
Compulsory Courses
EFG 899 – Research 0 (0-0) I and II (without credits – 04 semesters of the course)
MED 897 – Seminars in Health Sciences I (2 credits – odd semester)
Course taught by the students of the Professional Master’s in Health Sciences, which consists of presenting the research project to be developed during the course, whose theme should be chosen in agreement with the student’s supervisor and the coordinator of the course.
OPTIONAL COURSES
EFG 802 – Scientific Methodology in Health (4 credits – even semester r).
Science and knowledge: historical and conceptual aspects. The Scientific Method and its application for the construction of knowledge in health. Modalities and methods of Scientific Research. The Research Project and the steps necessary for its elaboration. Descriptors in health sciences. Scientific standardization. Ethical Aspects in Health Research. The scientific activity in the Post-graduation stricto sensu.
EFG 806 – Comprehensive Care for Drug Users (4 credits – semester)
Understanding about drug use. Drugs and the judicial system. Prevention strategies. Attention models and care networks. Biopsychosocial repercussions of drug use. Resources and strategies of care. Drugs and family relationships. Social re-integration
EFG 807 – Evidence Based Practice (2 credits – odd semester)
The evidence-based practice movement in health and its applicability in clinical practice. Classification of levels of evidence and the different types of studies. The search for evidence. Critical evaluation of the evidence.
EFG 808 – Elaboration and Analysis of Health Database (4 credits – odd semester)
Elaboration of databases in software applied to epidemiology and Health Sciences. Integration of databases. Collection and analysis of demographic and epidemiological data from public sources (DATASUS) for use in Health Sciences. Epidemiological analysis using a program applied to epidemiology (Epi-Info ™).
EFG 892 – Special Topics in Health Sciences III (3 credits – odd semester or even semester)
Discipline of non-regular offering, taught by visiting professors or from the institution itself, concentrated or not. Variable content covering important topics for the overall student training, not addressed in the regular subjects offered at the UFV.
MED 802 – Epidemiology in health care (4 credits – without definition).
Diagnosis in health: epidemiology at all levels of attention. Diagnosis of community health. Natural history of diseases / levels of prevention. Design of observational and experimental studies. Validity in epidemiology. Causality in epidemiology. Demographic and epidemiological transition.
MED 625 – Cardiovascular Risk Factors (3 credits – odd semester)
Traditional risk factors and their association with physical activity. Cardiovascular risk factors of lipoprotein nature and its association with physical activity. Cardiovascular risk factors of hemostatic origin and its association with physical activity. Factors of cardiovascular risk of metabolic origin and its association with physical activity. Inflammatory cardiovascular risk factors and their association with physical activity. Factors of cardiovascular risk of genetic origin and its association with physical activity. Cardiovascular risk factors related to lifestyle and its association with physical activity. Cardiovascular risk factors related to eating habits and their association with physical activity. Cardiovascular risk factors in men, women and children and their association with physical activity. Overall assessment of cardiovascular risk and its association with physical activity.
MED 626 – Quantitative Research Practices: SPSS (2 credits – odd semester)
Quantitative research methods. The formulation of the quantitative research problem. The construction of hypotheses. Sampling in quantitative research. Data collection techniques Analysis and interpretation of experimental data. Structuring the quantitative research project. Structuring of the scientific article of quantitative research.
MED 806 – Techniques for Coloring Biological Samples in the Clinical Laboratory (3 credits – odd semester)
Work in clinical laboratory. Biological materials, collection and use in the clinical laboratory. Principles and operations fundamental to the coloring techniques of biological materials. Colorings in clinical laboratory and assembly of blades.
MED 807 – Molecular and Immunological Techniques Applied to Health (4 credits – without definition)
Application of molecular biology in medical research and laboratory diagnosis. Recombinant DNA technology. Biosafety with a focus on genetically modified organisms. Fundamentals and applications of polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Fundamentals and applications of hybridization techniques. Fundamentals and applications of sequencing techniques. Fundamentals and application of polymorphism detection. Fundamentals and applications of Northern and Southern blot techniques. Immunological bases: clinical and laboratory relations. Fundamentals and applications of the use of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. Fundamentals and applications of the complement system evaluation. Fundamentals and applications of flow cytometry.
MED 808 – Semiology and Clinical Diagnosis (2 credits – semester)
Principles of the diagnostic strand of Evidence Based Medicine. The Six Steps of Evidence-Based Medicine. Types of studies and level of evidence. Systematic reviews and meta-analyzes. The modern evidence-based clinical method. Bias and diagnostic heuristics. The epidemic of minor symptoms and its approach.
MED 809 – Epistemology and Health Sciences (4 credits – unspecified)
Knowledge and science. The question of episteme in Greek thought. Hippocrates of Kos and the birth of the clinic. Knowledge in medieval thought. The Renaissance. The modern scientific revolution. The thought in Modernity: Descartes, Locke and Bacon. Hume’s skepticism. Kant and Critical Philosophy. The Enlightenment. Criticism in the nineteenth century: the “Romantic Thought”, Marx, Schopenahuer and Nietzsche. Vitalism and Mechanism in the Health Sciences. Heidegger and the question of technique. The science and philosophy of science in the 20th and 21st century. Epistemological Anarchism by Paul K. Feyerabend. Concepts, theories and methods of health sciences.
MED 810 – Bioethics and Research Ethics (4 credits – unspecified)
Foundations of ethics and bioethics. Main Currents of Bioethics. Ethical (bio) problems correlated to work in health in the individual and collective scope. Clinical bioethics. Bioethics and the field of public health. Ethics in research with humans and animals.
MED 813 – Health and Work (3 credits – odd semesters)
The field of Labor-Health Relations: Occupational Medicine, Occupational Health and Worker’s Health; National worker health policy – aspects of advancement / retrocession (new legislation: outsourcing); production-health paradigm: subsistence / source of illness; Occupational Risks; Methods of research in health and work; Occupational anamnesis; Clinical and epidemiological monitoring at work – health and work indicators; Occupational Health Surveillance; Rural Work.
MED 876 – Internship in Teaching I (1 credit – even and odd semesters)
This course aims to provide Professional Masters students with a teaching experience in the preceptory of undergraduate students by planning, preparing and conducting practical classes in undergraduate courses under the supervision and accompaniment of the professor of the respective undergraduate course.
MED 877 – Internship in Teaching II (2 credits – even and odd semesters)
This course aims to provide Professional Masters students with a teaching experience in the preceptory of undergraduate students by planning, preparing and conducting practical classes in undergraduate courses under the supervision and accompaniment of the professor of the respective undergraduate course.
MED 891 – Special Topics in Health Sciences (2 credits – even and odd semesters)
Discipline of non-regular offering, taught by visiting professors or from the institution itself, concentrated or not. Variable content covering important topics for overall student training, not addressed in the regular subjects offered at UFV.
*** The program reserves the right to make changes at any time during the period of the courses offered.
