The Egas Moniz School of Health and Science Integrated Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences is one of the most renowned courses in Portugal at this time. It boasts a tradition in academic excellence in training professionals that goes back more...
You will have practical laboratory classes since the 1st year of the course, in a total of more than 1,000 hours of effective laboratory work.
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Modern facilities
Large, modern and well equipped laboratories.
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Guaranteed internships
In community and hospital pharmacies, integrating the knowledge acquired during academic training with pharmaceutical practice.
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Espaço Saúde Egas Moniz
The Egas Moniz Health Space was inaugurated in 2020. It works as a commercial space but also welcomes 4th and 5th year students so that they can do practical classes in a real context.
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Career prospects
Enroll in the Pharmacists' Association and, later on, if you wish, obtain the title of specialist in different areas ranging from clinical analysis to regulatory issues;
Work in community pharmacy as technical director, assistant pharmacist or pharmacist. The pharmacist is the only professional who can occupy these functions;
Work in a hospital pharmacy where you can be director of service or the head of different departments. The pharmacist is the only professional who can occupy these functions.
Work in the pharmaceutical industry in multiple areas ranging from research and development to commercialization, through production, quality control, marketing, clinical trials and registries, distribution, stockists and exporters, among others. You can occupy functions of direction or of leadership in the different sectors. In Industries with AIM (Market Introduction Authorization) it is mandatory for the Technical Director to be a pharmacist, especially associated with Quality Assurance and/or Regulatory Affairs. At the factory, besides being a member of the OF (Pharmacists' Association), he must also hold the title of specialist in the Pharmaceutical Industry, while in the other Industries that only have a license to trade and distribute, it is sufficient to be enrolled in the OF.
Work in different laboratories of analysis, which can be clinical analysis, environmental analysis, food analysis, forensic analysis, among others.
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Taught in English or in Portuguese
Allowing the globalization of teaching and the internationalization of students. Here, students are really evolved in a multicultural and international context.
Syllabus
Get on board for this journey
Personal skills
Human Anatomy
Cellular Biology
Pharmaceutical Careers
General and Analytical Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Calculation
Physical Chemistry Principles in Pharmaceutical Science
Human Physiology
Biochemistry I
Immunology
Histology and Haematology
Organic Chemistry I
What you need
For students coming from a non-Portuguese High School (EU):
Have completed, or have completed in the current academic year, a course of high school education;
Hold a foreign secondary education course and wish to apply under the terms of article 20-A of Decree-Law no. 296-A/98, of 25 September.
These candidates will have to apply for the equivalence to continue their studies, at a public portuguese high school after the equivalence is granted, they should go to the DGE facilities to request the substitution of the entrance examinations, through article 20-A.
For non-EU students:
Non-holders of any EU citizenship (in accordance with Article 2 of the Regulation);
Be the holder of a high school qualification or equivalent (through Equivalence of Foreign Qualifications at DGE);
or Have taken national final exams of foreign secondary education that are considered equivalent to the entrance exams set for the chosen program. - In the abesence of said exams, the candidate will have to take an aptitude test at the institution.