Limitações e perspectivas de ensino e investigação no ciclo básico das Faculdades de Medicina Portuguesas.

Abstract

Well known difficulties of teaching and research lived by basic sciences of the medical school curriculum in Portugal are becoming desperate. Two main problems deserve major concern and urgent solutions: firstly, the recruitment and continuing formation of motivated candidates for teaching and/or research in those areas; secondly, the establishment of adequate economic support that makes those careers in basic teaching and research attractive, along with the provision or creation of the necessary support for both activities. Specific administrative and financial solutions are required from the government, in order to foster a realistic future in the preclinical areas of the medical curricula.