UFTM

Major

Medicine

Presentation

The UFTM Medicine graduate is educated to be a professional with generalist, humanist, critical and reflexive behavior, being able to work ethically and proactively, always observing the different action levels in the health-disease process. The graduate is expected to integrate knowledge, abilities and attitudes to develop actions towards health promotion, prevention, recovery and rehabilitation. He/she will be able to meet the health needs of citizens considering the human being in its entirety. The graduate will act on both individual and collective dimensions, in the areas of health care, health management and health education.

Labor market

The medical graduate will be qualified to work as general practitioner, to diagnose and treat the most prevalent diseases in the community. With this respect, the graduate will be able to act in the primary and secondary care of SUS (the Brazilian Unified Health System) within the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Admission Options 

Sisu - Students who are interested in applying for a place at UFTM must necessarily sign up and take the tests related to the National Examination of High School Education – Enem. 

Transfer students - Intended for UFTM students who are attending related majors, as well as for students from other national or foreign higher education institutions who wish to transfer to the same major or to related majors.

Diploma holders – Intended for candidates who have already completed a higher education major and who are willing to attend a new undergraduate major at UFTM.

Readmission – Intended for students who are not enrolled anymore in any undergraduate major at UFTM but wish to return to their studies.

 Summary