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The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) School of Medicine is one of the oldest and biggest in Brazil. Founded in 1911, shortly after the creation of the capital city of Belo Horizonte, it graduates 320 doctors every year – the biggest number of graduates per year in Brazil – and another 50 speech-language therapists.〔http://www.medicina.ufmg.br/〕 The curricula for the Medicine and Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology undergraduate courses are among the most advanced available, integrating a solid theoretical basis with an intense professional and research practice, coupled with ethical and social reflections. These values go beyond the undergraduate courses. The UFMG School of Medicine stimulates permanent education, articulated with scientific research and the concern for the demands of health services. By means of exchange agreements with international institutions, faculty and students have the opportunity of being up to date with the worldwide production in the health area. ==History== On March 5, 1911, the Medical-Surgical Society of Minas Gerais created the School of Medicine in the city of Belo Horizonte, the fourth to be founded in Brazil. It was housed on a stately house in the center of what is the capital of the state of Minas Gerais. In 1927, the institution integrated the University of Minas Gerais, which was made federal in 1949 with three other tertiary schools then existent in Belo Horizonte: the School of Law, the School of Engineering and the Free School of Dentistry, which included the course on Pharmacy. The class of 1960 inaugurated the present building. The opening lecture was given by President Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, alumnus, benefactor, and from then on, honorary professor. In the 1960s the Medical Residency was made available for graduate students in various specialties. Graduate courses were implemented in 1968, with the creation of the PhD in Ophthalmology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ftp.medicina.ufmg.br/conheca_fm/arquivos/Medicina_CATALOGO_2010.pdf )〕 The 1970s saw a reform in teaching practices. It marked the start of the development of an audacious curriculum that sought to instruct doctors who would be able to recognize and fulfill the demands of the people and their communities, within the standards of the Brazilian public health system in its regional particularities. Apart from the basic, compulsory courses, this curriculum should offer other courses and internships designed to cater for the individual vocations of students during their undergraduate studies. Students then started to have greater contact with patients and patient care, especially in the public services, partners with the University in the medical education. These privileged working spaces were available not only in Belo Horizonte but also in the rural areas of the state, with the Rural Internship, a pioneering initiative. From the beginning, when the object of medical attention was the “indigent” person, the School has contributed for the creation of a new social concept – health as a right for all and the duty of the State. This notion of citizenship and the integration of the faculty in the assistance are the paradigm for the a health care directed to persons as individuals, now available at the university hospitals, at the associate health centers, during internships in towns, in the rural areas and in special projects, such as the neonatal screening for congenital diseases, which make the School of Medicine present in all 853 towns in the state of Minas Gerais. In the last few years, the School of Medicine also witnessed a considerable increase in faculty tenures and titles, leading to the expansion of numerous research projects and publications, always linked to theoretical and practical instruction to students. The development of the School of Medicine has been constant. The first class to graduate in 1917 consisted of 17 students of medicine; in 1933 there were 70. In 1965, the number of ingresses was fixed at 160. In 1969, under pressure for a greater number of professionals in the market, the number doubled to 320, divided into two biannual ingresses. In 2007, the year of the graduation of the 123rd class, a total of 14,740 doctors have graduated from this school. On July 1, 1999, the undergraduate course on Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology was created. The first class entered the university in 2000. Starting in 2010, with the creation of courses on Gerontologic Care and on Radiology and Image Diagnostics Technology, the School will graduate professionals able in the care for the elderly and image technicians, answering an increasing social demand on these areas. The teaching reform in the School of Medicine in the 1970s revealed the necessity of a greater knowledge on the evolution of healthcare through the ages, and led to the creation of the Center for Memory of the School of Medicine – Cememor, open to public visitation upon scheduling. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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