Specific Recognition | Medicine and Dentistry
Check HERE all the information concerning the procedure and the documents necessary for the recognition.
For further information, please contact the Specialised Services regarding this issue in the Faculty of Medicine (FMUC) by means of the email reconhecimentos@fmed.uc.pt.
Medicine
The specific recognition of the Master’s Degree in Medicine follows what is established in the Regulation for the procedure of the Specific Recognition concerning the Integrated Cycle of Studies of the Master’s Degree in Medicine of the Portuguese Medical Schools, available at https://www.uc.pt/en/academicos/regulamentos/regulamentos
Exams dates for Specific recognition | Academic Year 2019/2020 and 2020/2021
Normal
Examination Period
>> Applications whose file has been forwarded by the Universities to the Medical Schools until 16th November 2020 (limit date).
 | Proficiency Test in Basic Communication (Portuguese Language) | |
| Specific recognition exam – written exam | |
| Specific recognition exam – Practical /Clinical Exam | |
| Specific recognition exam – “Final Work of Integrated Master’s Degree” or an equivalent work | |
NOTICE
| GRADE ROSTER CONCERNING THE PROFICIENCY TESTS IN BASIC COMMUNICATION
(PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE) Specific recognition of the Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine We inform that in order to comply with the personal data protection legislation, the final grade of the written exam concerning the Specific Recognition of the Cycle of Studies of the Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine will be communicated to each applicant individually by means of email message. The grade roster may be consulted by the applicants, in person in their individual file. |
Scheduling of the exams / Assessment components / 2021/2022 Academic Year
In accordance with the Regulation on the Recognition Process specific to the Integrated Cycle of Studies of the Master's Degree in Medicine at the Portuguese Medical Schools, the Council of the Medical Schools establishes the calendar for the exams/assessment components regarding the 2021/2022 academic year as follows:
| Exam/component | Date | |
| Proficiency Test in Basic Communication (Portuguese Language) | |
| Specific recognition exam – written exam | |
| Specific recognition exam – Practical /Clinical Exam | Preferably between April and May 2022 (on a date to be defined by each Portuguese Medical School) |
| Specific recognition exam – Submission of the final work of the Integrated Master’s Degree | 6 months after the successful assessment in the practical/clinical exam |
| Specific recognition exam - Discussion of the final work of the Integrated Master’s Degree | Up to 2 months after the submission of the final work (date to be defined by the appointed examination board) |
Notes:
- This information will be published on the Webpage of this Organisational Unit.
NOTICE: GRADE ROSTER CONCERNING THE WRITTEN TEST - that took place on 7th January 2022 We inform that in order to comply with the personal data protection legislation, as well as with what is provided for in no.1 of article no.9 subparagraph ix) of the Regulation no. 173/2020 of 2nd March, the final grades of the written exam were communicated to each applicant individually by means of email message. The grade roster may be consulted in person by each applicant in his/her individual file. |
Exceptional Examination Period to sit the written examFollowing the Announcement of the Council of Portuguese Medical Schools of 9th December 2021, we inform that an Exceptional Examination Period to sit the Written Exam has been created, which is applied only and exclusively to applicants from the following countries: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and to the applicants who demonstrably could not sit the exam on 7th January 2022 due to the urgent and temporary restriction measures regarding travelling to the EU. We inform that the written exam of the exceptional examination period will take place on 27th July 2022, at 09:00 a.m. |
Scheduling of the exams / Assessment components / 2022/2023 Academic Year
>> Applications whose file has been forwarded by the Universities to the Medical Schools until 1st September 2022 (limit date).
| Exam/component | Date | |
| Proficiency Test in Basic Communication (Portuguese Language) | 25/11/2022 at 9h00 a.m. |
| Specific recognition exam – written exam | 06/01/2023 at 9h00 a.m. |
| Specific recognition exam – Practical /Clinical Exam | Preferably between April and May 2023 (on a date to be defined by each Portuguese Medical School) |
| Specific recognition exam – Submission of the final work of the Integrated Master’s Degree | 6 months after the successful assessment in the practical/clinical exam |
| Specific recognition exam - Discussion of the final work of the Integrated Master’s Degree | Up to 2 months after the submission of the final work (date to be defined by the appointed examination board) |
Dentistry
Dates of the Written Exams for Assessing Knowledge
Dentistry
Schools have approved two periods for theoretical knowledge assessment (written exam
for assessing knowledge) in the current civil year:
Regarding the civil year 2022, the Portuguese Dentistry Schools have approved two dates for theoretical knowledge assessment (written exam for assessing knowledge):
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| 2nd Examination phase: 9th November 2022 |
