Development of the Dissertation project
A doctoral dissertation is considered an investigation study that represents an original contribution to the state-of-the-art of the subject addressed.
Selection and evaluation of the dissertation project
The graduate applicant for approval of the thesis project should submit it to the Scientific Committee (SC) of the Heart Institute of the Clinical Hospital of the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (HCFMUSP), in case the research is carried out at the Institution, either entirely or partly, according to the instructions available on the link http://www.incor.usp.br/sites/incor2013/index.php/como-submeter-um-projeto-na-comissao-cientifica
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The SC will provide the project to be sent to the Stricto Sensu Graduate Committee for evaluation.
The applicant and his/her advisor will be called for a meeting with the Program Coordinating Committee, which, after approving the project, will return it to the SC for sending to the Ethics Committee for the Analysis of Research Projects (Comissão de Ética para Análise de Projetos de Pesquisa, CAPPesq) of HCFMUSP.
The evaluation of the applicant, with the presence of the advisor, is for discussing the research project with the purpose of analyzing its scientific relevance, adequacy for scientific training, and viability, and is of eliminatory nature.
Research projects involving humans (patients) who do not belong to the HCFMUSP Complex will be firstly analyzed by the Graduate Committee, and later the FMUSP Department of Cardiopneumology and the REC-FMUSP are informed after the project is registered.
Research projects requiring corrections and/or adjustments suggested by the Program Coordinating Committee on the evaluation of the dissertation project will have a deadline of 30 days to make the necessary changes. If this deadline is not met, the projects will be returned to the Scientific Committee, restarting the evaluation process.
Selection Criteria
The Examination Committee will assess: scientific and educational activity; engagement with an Institution of Higher Education and Research; consistency, interest and insertion of the project in the advisor's line of research.
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Applications are performed continuously throughout the school year, exclusively at the Program Office. The enrollment can only be performed within the year of application, as provided by Notice.
List of documents for application
1) Application form Fomulário_de_inscrição;
2) Legible copy of the Identity Card (ID); for foreigners: legible copy of the National Identity Card, National Registry of Foreigners (Registro Nacional de Estrangeiro, RNE);
3) Legible copy of the Individual Taxpayer Registry (Cadastro de Pessoa Física, CPF);
4) 1 recent photo size 3x4;
5) Legible copy of the Graduate Diploma registered in the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture (front and back sides). In the absence of a diploma, submit a recent statement of the institution of origin reporting the date of graduation.
6) Result for English Proficiency test (with validity of 5 years); foreigner students must submit the intermediate level certificate of proficiency in Portuguese, obtained in the CELPE-Brás test up to 6 months before the course deadline (https://portal.inep.gov.br/web/guest/acoes-internacionais);
7) Receipt of payment of the application fee;
8) Approval of the thesis project by the Ethics Committee of the Clinical Hospital of FMUSP - CAPPesq/HCFMUSP, and projects developed entirely at the University Hospital of the University of São Paulo (USP) must be approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the referred Hospital.
Notes on the documents above:
1: Form of personal and curricular data;
2. Although the registry in the Regional Council of Medicine is legally equivalent to the ID, the Fênix database system does not include a field related to this registry, because it is used by all programs from USP;
3. Personal documents
4. A statement informing a date of graduation after that of application will not be accepted;
5. The Committee will accept only the following English proficiency tests:
5.1. Reading Test in English for Candidates for Postgraduate Courses, carried out by Cultura Inglesa, Pinheiros* branch, exclusively for USP School of Medicine. Minimum score for doctoral course: 60 points. The result is provided by the program graduate office;
5.1.1. Toefl internet-based Test, with minimum score of 61 points for doctoral course;
5.1.2. Toefl Computer-based Test, with minimum score of 173 points for doctoral course;
5.1.3. Toefl Paper-based Test, with minimum score of 500 points for doctoral course;
5.1.4. The Institutional Toefl is not accepted;
5.2. APT(A) Alumni Proficiency Test, Oral Interview, Translation, carried out by the Alumni Association exclusively for USP School of Medicine, with minimum score of 70 points; 7) To be collected at the FMUSP Department of Treasury, through a fee bill obtained at the graduate office of the program in which the application will be performed;
Obs.: Applicants who had done their master's degree outside USP should provide Acceptance of Master's Degree Aceitação do título de Mestre.
CULTURA INGLESA - +55 - 11 - 3032-4888 - At the moment of registration it is necessary to take a recent photo size 5x7, dated at most 2 months before the date of the test.
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The Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery of the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (FMUSP) began its activities in 1989, with the purpose of promoting intellectual formation and the production of knowledge in the fields encompassing its area of concentration. This program, whose headquarters are located at the Heart Institute of the Clinical Hospital of FMUSP, comprises a set of scheduled activities, both advanced and individualized, supervised by an advisor, which include and privilege teaching and research, always aiming to integrate knowledge. The existence of a Thoracic and Cardiovascular Program is justified by the fact that the Heart Institute is an autonomous segment within FMUSP, developing specific research and teaching activities, with great national and international penetration.
In order to achieve these goals, the Graduate Program in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery receives as students professionals with medical degree and individuals with a degree in other related areas who are affiliated with or were sent by university and non-university institutions linked to the Health System or to research and teaching centers and who are interested in developing projects in their area of knowledge. At the end of the Course, after passing the disciplines, the general qualification test and the thesis defense, the student receives the PhD degree in Sciences by the FMUSP, in the area of concentration in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
History
During its existence, the Graduate Program in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has been changed, according to the guidelines of CAPES Evaluation Committee. The Program Coordination, together with the professors, established several goals for improving the Program: renewal and expansion of the faculty staff; reorganization of research activities; incentive for PhD students to stay in the Service and participate in investigations; restructuring of disciplines; reduction in the time required for obtain the degree, and expansion of the intellectual production related to the defended doctoral theses.
Seeking to attain these goals, several actions were taken: renewal and expansion of the faculty staff, incorporating professors with well-defined lines of research and recognized scientific production; establishment of quarterly periodic meetings with advisors, in order to promote the strengthening of the lines of research and to follow-up the development of the thesis projects of PhD students; rigorous selection process of graduate students by the Committee, with a careful analysis of doctoral thesis projects regarding scientific merit and feasibility; opening and incentive to the application of non-medical professionals; restructuring of the curricular framework, with the expansion in the group of compulsory disciplines; incentive to the participation of scientific initiation students together with professors in their research laboratories; and increase in the capacity of advisors to raise funds from development agencies.
The members of the faculty of the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Program has a relevant academic and professional tradition in their area of knowledge and their activity has always been characterized by the high number and quality of their scientific production. This fact is testified by the level of the dissemination vehicles used and also often by the recognition of the national and international scientific community. However, the existence of only one area of concentration and very broad lines of research at the beginning of the program hampered the access and positioning of students regarding the subjects of their theses and also negatively interfered in the evaluation process developed by CAPES. In 1998, there was a restructuring in areas of concentration, lines of research and projects, and the program began to comprise three areas of concentration: General Thoracic Surgery, Surgery for Acquired Heart Diseases, and Surgery for Congenital Heart Diseases, which resulted in the program being awarded grade 4 by CAPES in the triennium 1998-2000.
In the next triennium, these areas of concentration were comprised again by the area of concentration in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, by order of the Graduate Dean’s Office of the University of São Paulo, due to the fact that the other areas were not registered in its database. Despite this, the proposal and the activity of the Program remained objective and coherent, and a significant improvement was observed in the period from 2001 to 2003 regarding training activity, participation of the student body, and preparation of doctoral Theses. However, these improvements did not result in an improvement in the grade obtained by the Program in CAPES evaluation.
Continuing the project established in the previous triennium, in the triennium 2004-2006 the Program finished the restructuring of its training and research activities, which are now focused predominantly on the participation of the student body and on its appropriate research training. In this period, there was the expansion of the student body, along with the solid fundraising with development agencies, the establishment of inter-institutional exchanges, and the opening of the postdoctoral program, actions that, together with a good core training syllabus and with lines of research consolidated by numerous publications and defended theses, resulted in an increase in high-quality intellectual production, linked predominantly to the stricto sensu graduate level of education.
These actions resulted in an additional improvement in quality, with the Program achieving a solid position in its area of expertise, a situation that justified the Grade 5 awarded by CAPES. The expectation of maintaining this trend, based on a process of continuous improvement, opens the prospect of obtaining better scores and a solid insertion in the international scenario.
In this sense, the Program began the new triennium with a significant expansion in its intellectual production, situation represented by 10 publications in level A international journals, 9 in level B international journals, and 13 in level C international journals in the year 2007, 50% of which related to end of course papers.