History
The history of this Postgraduate Course began in 1959, when a Residency in General Surgery at the Operative Technique and Experimental Surgery Service of the HC-UFMG was started. In 1969, the Postgraduate Course, at PhD level, was approved by the Postgraduate Council of UFMG. In 1969, it was applied to be accredited in the Federal Council of Education.
On the 26th of January (1972) the postgraduate students were selected. On 03/13/1973, the first curriculum of the Course was approved. The first defense of Thesis occurred on 18/12/1974. On 09/01/1975 the course was accredited and approved on 12/31/1975 and was published in the Official Gazette in Section 1, Part 2, page 514 on January 15, 1976.
In 2003, the two Postgraduate Programs of the Medicine Faculty of UFMG: Abdominal Surgery and Ophthalmology were unified in only one program, nominated Postgraduate Program in Applied Sciences to Surgery and Ophthalmology (PPGCO ). The CAPES (Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level Personnel) approved the new program, assigning it score four. This score was maintained in two consecutive triennia (2004-2009). During the triennium 2010-2012 this score was three.
The PPGCO is made up of professors from different Departments of the Faculty of Medicine. Most of them are from the Department of Surgery and come from different areas of practice: General Surgery and Digestive System, Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Anesthesiology, Organ Transplants and Nutrition. Four professors are from the Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, an Infectologist is attached to the Department of Complementary Propedeutics and one professor is from Orthopedics. This diversity in the origin of training is important to meet the Program’s proposal for inclusion in its Areas of Concentration and Lines of Research.
The Program has multidisciplinary scope and brings together students from different areas of training: Medicine, Biomedicine, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Biological Sciences, Veterinary Medicine among others.
The Program operates in the area of Health and involves several clinical-surgical modalities. Due to its wide level of coverage, it plays a relevant role in the training of human resources throughout the state of Minas Gerais. It has contributed to the training of professors from the UFMG and other higher education institutions of Minas Gerais and Brazil, either as a researcher or in the exercise of administrative positions, creating new centers for research and training of human resources. The main cities where the Program is located in the labor market are: Belo Horizonte, Asunción (Paraguay), Santa Cruz de la Sierra and La Paz (Bolivia), Bogotá (Colombia), Quito (Ecuador), Toronto and Chicoutimi (Canada), Pittsburgh (USA), Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Vitória (ES), Salvador, Recife, Teresina, Goiânia, Belém (PA), Rio Grande (RS), João Pessoa, Taubaté, Viçosa, Ouro Preto, Sete Lagoas, Diamantina, Governador Valadares, Montes Claros, São João Del Rei, Itajubá, Pouso Alegre, Lavras, Juiz de Fora, Barbacena, etc. It is noteworthy that a large majority of the Faculty of the Department of Surgery of the Faculty of Medicine of the UFMG and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora was titled in the PPGCO.
The Program is being integrated with other ten programs of the Postgraduate Center of the Faculty of Medicine of UFMG and the hospital complex of the Clinical Hospital of UFMG (Health Care Campus), counting on the support of a solid infrastructure for teaching and experimental research and clinic.
In 2016, the new curricular proposal maintained three areas of concentration and eight lines of research. The new curriculum was constituted by 12 disciplines of central nucleus and related domain and 12 disciplines of support to the lines of research.
The total number of defenses completed at the end of the quadrennium (2013-2016) was 116, with 71 (67%) Masters and 45 (33%) PhDs. The intellectual output of the Program has risen qualitatively in international journals. Intellectual production included licensed patents arising from the completion of the Program. PPGCO has focused its efforts in recent years to implement reforms to attend the demands of the CAPES Medicine III Evaluation Committee, scored in the previous three-year period. Greater homogeneity of the teaching staff was obtained, in the context of a wide diversity of experiences and scientific production. The goals of the Program for the coming years are focused on excellence in Teaching and Research in Post-Graduation