Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine
Lisbon, Portugal
Master degree
DURATION
6 years
LANGUAGES
Portuguese, English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
02 Mar 2026
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 18,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
The Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine (MIM) at NOVA Medical School (NMS), with a total of 360 credits and 12 curricular semesters of work, incorporates two complementary training cycles:
- The first cycle of studies aims at obtaining 180 ECTS, distributed over the first six semesters, making a total of 5040 hours of student work;
- The second cycle of studies aims at obtaining the remaining 180 ECTS, equally distributed over six semesters, making a total of 5040 hours of student work.
1st Year
1st Semester
- Anatomy I
- Physiology I
- Introduction to Medicine
- Basic Life Support
- Cellular and Molecular Biology
2nd Semester
- Anatomy II
- Physiology II
- Histology & Embryology
- Nutritional Biochemistry
2nd Year
1st Semester
- Genetics
- Anatomic Pathology I
- Pharmacology I
- Pathophysiology I
- Principles of Neurosciences
2nd Semester
- Anatomic Pathology II
- Pathophysiology II
- Pharmacology II
- Introduction to Clinical Practice
- Basic Microbiology
3rd Year
1st Semester
- Unit Laboratory Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Public Health and Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Immunology
- General Surgery
- Ethics, Medicine and Society
- Infection: From Laboratory Diagnosis to Clinical Practice
- Imagiology
- Optional
4th Year
- Motor Device
- Medical Specialties I
- Heart & Lung Medicine
- Surgical Specialties
- Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Introduction to Pediatrics and Adolescence Health
- Infection and sepsis
- The Elderly Patient
- Behavioural Medicine
- Optional II
5th Year
- Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
- Psychiatry
- Family Medicine
- The Patient with Cancer
- Paediatrics
- Medical Therapeutics
- Medical Specialties II
- Medical Specialties III
- Optional III
6th Year
- Preparation for Clinical Practice
- Professionalising Internship
- Mental Health Clerkship
- Surgery Internship
- Gynecology and Obstetrics (partial internship)
- Internal Medicine (Clinical Practice)
- Family Medicine (Clinical Practice)
- Paediatrics – Clerkship
- Final Internship Report
- Optional IV
NOVA is ranked 388th worldwide according to QS World University Rankings 2025.
Our university ranks 501-600 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025.
At the end of the degree, the student must acquire the necessary competencies for the professional practice of Medicine such as:
- Data collection in various clinical situations; Elaboration of clinical reasoning in order to formulate provisional and definitive diagnoses;
- Clinical decision-making;
- Development and deepening of autonomy skills in order to allow a careful selection of lifelong learning pathways;
- Development of competences in the field of clinical research in the formulation and execution of studies and in the communication of results to the scientific community and the general public.
The doctors trained by NMS will have as their main professional outlets the clinical career (hospital, general and family medicine), public health, legal and occupational medicine, but they can also embark on a career of Research and Teaching.