Graduate Program: inaugural class 2016

“2015 was a very important year because we were re-accredited by the Ministry of Education. We were evaluated and recognized as a teaching institution of excellence, having received the highest grade. The evaluators perceived us as a university. Being a university is something that is part of our perspectives and we are working towards it”. It was with these words that the director of Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Dr. Maria Luisa Carvalho Soliani began the inaugural class of the institution's Stricto Sensu Graduate Programs, which took place on February 19, at the Cabula Academic Unit.

In her speech, the director also highlighted the innovative character of Bahiana. “It is a traditional institution, but one that is constantly being renewed. Last year we launched the undergraduate course in Physical Education and the Research and Innovation Coordination”, declared Soliani, emphasizing the institutional values ​​and how they are the true guide of the institution.

The coordinator of Undergraduate and Graduate Education, Prof. Maria de Lourdes de Freitas Gomes, gave an institutional presentation where she highlighted the progress of the program, which today has 38 groups of Lato Sensu courses and a total of 904 students. The Stricto Sensu programs in Medicine and Human Health and Health Technologies were presented by their coordinators, Prof. Dr. Ana Marice Ladeia and Prof. Dr. Ana Marice Ladeia. Dr. Marcos Almeida, respectively.

The inaugural class had a special program with the seminar on Clinical Research, Biobanks and Biorepositories, composed of lectures "Clinical research in Brazil: scenario, practice and perspectives", presented by Dr. Maria Hermoso Cristóbal (FIOCRUZ-RJ) and “Building a biobank and biorepository”, topic addressed by Dr. Claudio Gustavo Stefanoff (INCA).

“The development of clinical research in the current scenario has brought some challenges in terms of operationalization. We then sought out FIOCRUZ for being a partner institution and for being a national reference in health research so that, in a network, we can trace better paths for the development of research both in Bahia and at the national level. The choice of the topic that refers to biobanks and biorepositories is due to their inherence within the research. In this sense, INCA is one of the five institutions recognized by CONEP and has a long trajectory in this regard", explained the Research and Innovation coordinator at Bahiana, Prof. doctor Diego Meneses.

After the presentations, a table was set up with the teachers from Bahiana Luis Cláudio Correia, Cristiane Dias and Ubirajara Barros who together coordinated the debate with the mediation of Prof. Dr. Bernardo Galvão.

In the afternoon shift, at the Academic Unit Brotas, researchers and guest speakers continued the debate.