Universidade Católica and Germano de Sousa Laboratory Medicine Centre sign cooperation agreement at Católica Medical School

The Católica Medical School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and the Germano de Sousa Centre for Laboratory Medicine have signed a collaboration protocol for the implementation of a laboratory for the teaching of Laboratory Medicine.

The protocol, signed at Católica on June 27 between the two institutions, aims to implement a laboratory for teaching Laboratory Medicine, fully equipped by the Germano de Sousa Centre for Laboratory Medicine and with teaching staff from the same Centre, in order to provide the students of the Católica Medical School of Católica, the teaching of this discipline, in a fully integrated model, throughout the course. 

At the signing of the protocol, the President of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Isabel Capeloa Gil, expressed her "gratitude to the Germano de Sousa Group for the partnership with the University, and the due recognition to Professor Germano de Sousa for his support in the creation of the Católica Medical School, both internally, as a member of the Board of Governors, and publicly, by always having taken a position to defend this project".

About the protocol now signed, the administrator of the Germano de Sousa Group, Maria José Rego de Sousa stressed that "these are two entities of recognized value that join together to increase the quality of teaching at the Católica Medical School", adding that "the skills of Germano de Sousa are laboratory medicine and it was therefore important that students grow up in an environment where they could learn laboratory diagnosis and live it".

A partnership that in the words of the Director of the Católica Medical School, António Medina de Almeida represents a "very great innovation in teaching, which is the possibility of having a diagnostic laboratory, accessible to students from the 1st year, and that allows not only contact with results, but also with diagnostic techniques, thus representing an added value, because without diagnosis we have no disease and without disease there is no treatment."

The Integrated Masters Degree in Medicine of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa has six academic years, entirely taught in English. With a completely innovative curriculum, it results from a collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Maastricht, an institution of international prestige.

The Germano de Sousa Laboratory Medicine Centre is a Clinical Pathology Laboratory of the Germano de Sousa Group, which has been operating for over 45 years and is strongly established in Portugal. Its pillars are based on the values of its founder, who knew how to combine high scientific and medical knowledge with the capacity for clinical governance and innovation that allowed it to always be ahead of its time, looking to the future with confidence, at the service of patients and doctors, in the complexities of clinical-laboratory diagnosis.