The Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition Sciences qualifies to practice the profession of Nutritionist, which is one of the most relevant professions in the field of health. The teaching of Nutrition Sciences at NOVA Medical School, sharing a large part Medicine teaching, is a strong bet from an integrative point of view, as it allows students to acquire hands-on research skills, allowing them to understand associations and recommendations, and to ensure more holistic and effective diagnostics and intervention strategies.

Your future in laboratory medicine starts here! The Biomedical Laboratory Sciences programme at Egas Moniz offers excellent training, combining technological innovation, practical experience and a strong international focus. If you're looking for a challenging, innovative and global career, this is the course for you!

A bachelor in Nursing is a prestigious occupation, with good employability levels and the reflection of this and the quality of our degree is the wide acceptance our nurse's experience in the labour market in Portugal and abroad. If you seek a profession with a high human component, if you are tailored to help, and if you like others, then nursing is your future!

The Undergraduate Degree in Dental Prosthetics is very practical right from the start, due to its structure and 3-year duration, and combines solid theoretical know-how with state-of-the-art technology. Oral health care is a concern everyone has and nowadays, cosmetic dentistry takes on an increasingly greater significance.

This Degree in Veterinary Nursing (DVN) values the practical and sustained application of the acquired knowledge, forming Veterinary Nurses (VN) competent and able to contribute significantly to the Health and Animal Welfare, not only of Pets, but also of Exotics, Horses, and Livestock Species. DVN's curriculum structure values tutorial learning, in a real environment, based on innovative logic, based on the teaching that aims for integration, branching, and professionalization, and values global health. Animal Welfare and ethics will be valued through broad access to clinical models and simulators, reinforcing the acquisition of skills and the preparation of students for practical classes with real cases, in a deep respect for sick animals and their responsible use in teaching.

The Egas Moniz Higher Institute of Health Science (IUEM), has a vast experience in teaching in the field of Psychology (pre-Bologna), which includes the Forensic Psychology and Criminal Behaviour component, fostering the engagement of students in projects in the community (schools, courts, law enforcement agencies, commissions to protect children and youths, municipal council, victim support associations, and others).

Egas Moniz Higher Institute of Health Science's (IUEM) Undergraduate Degree in Nutrition Science, stands out due to the strong investment in teaching that is focused on the nutritional clinical practice. As such, there is strict collaboration with the IUEM's Nutrition Consultations, with the aim of offering students an intense observational clinical practice focused on the community’s reality, right from the first years of their undergraduate degree. This collaboration with the Nutrition Consultations allows students to be in contact with teachers, in their specific field of practice, for about 50 hours per month. In order to intensify the students’ medical practice, open sessions with the academic community are organised periodically, where medical cases of interest in the field of nutrition are presented and discussed.

Biochemistry is a dynamic and exciting science that contributes important information to the pharmaceutical sciences, biology, medicine, nutrition, agriculture, physiology, genetics and immunology. Progress in science is achieved through observation and experimentation. The Degree in Biochemistry bets on the experimental component, promoting students' contact with research.

The Degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology encompasses several rapidly evolving scientific areas and allows students to keep up with the latest progress. It offers a strong and comprehensive experimental component, enabling students to acquire skills to respond to the challenges of modern biology, in the laboratory and in society.

The course aims to provide the necessary training to: Participation in the management of services, units or health facilities;

Knowing food from production, through its industrial processing, assessing the qualitative and nutritionally under the quality point of view, food safety and nutritional value compared to different user requirements;

The UCP Medicine course is an Integrated Master's Degree lasting six academic years. It has a highly innovative curriculum, resulting from collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Maastricht, an institution of great international prestige. It also has a partnership for the clinical component with the Luz Saúde Group, one of the largest private health groups in Portugal. The course is supported by modern pedagogies, with a strong technological base, and seeks to guarantee the humanization of the medical profession. The Medicine course will use student-centered teaching methodologies that foster learning autonomy, greater retention, and depth of knowledge, with proven clinical skills. The course is aligned with the Maastricht University teaching and evaluation model will have training at the best international level, with top teachers, and will be taught in English, with the clinical component in Portuguese. The course will allow access to international training mobility with other leading medical schools.

NOVA's Biomedical Engineering develops innovative technologies in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The course covers a very wide range of areas such as Biomedical Instrumentation, Signal and Image Processing, Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Rehabilitation. The course was created in order to stimulate creativity, initiative and autonomy of students, encouraging them to apply the scientific and technological knowledge acquired, both to improve health care and to understand the working mechanisms of the human body. At various stages of the course, the connection to various health institutions and companies linked to this sector is promoted.

Nursing in the last thirty years has undergone a significant evolution in the level of scientific knowledge and training at the technological level and at the level of the philosophy of care resulting from sociocultural, political, economic, demographic and epidemiological changes in modern societies.