Coordinator: Jurema Telles de Oliveira Lima
Executive Secretary: Ana Telma Araripe (ana.araripe@imip.org.br)
Academic Secretary: Cristina Allouche (mestrado@imip.org.br)
Academic Secretary: Patrícia Serafim (doutorado@imip.org.br)

Its objective is to train residents and preceptors in palliative care, with an emphasis on the quality of technical and scientific training, enabling them to practice advanced, transformative professional care, capable of using technological innovation to meet social and specific demands for local, regional, and national development.

Areas of Concentration

• Palliative Care in Health Across the Life Cycle

• Management, Innovation, and Evaluation in Palliative Care

Research Lines

• Symptom Control, Rehabilitation, and Quality of Life and Death in Palliative Care

• Clinical, Epidemiological, and Translational Studies of Diseases and Conditions Requiring Palliative Care

• Management and Evaluation of Care Models in Palliative Care

• Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Applied to the Development of Solutions in Palliative Care

The Professional Master’s Program will require a minimum of 33 credits, of which 18 correspond to mandatory modules and labs, and 15 credits are dedicated to the preparation and defense of the master’s thesis, which must be eligible for publication. In total, the program includes a minimum workload of 495 hours (1 theoretical or practical credit equals 15 hours). Learning flexibility (including informal and unplanned learning) will be encouraged through the completion of 4 (four) credits corresponding to elective modules within the institutional exchange network and participation in scientific events.

Course Documents

• Procedures After the Defense of Dissertation and Thesis
• Procedures for Requesting Diploma Issuance
• Guidelines for Preparing Research Projects
• Guidelines for Preparing Theses, Dissertations, and Monographs
• Request for Scheduling the Examination Committee

Residents enrolled at the Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira (IMIP) and active Residency Preceptors who participate in the governing bodies of their respective residency programs.

• Tutorial Modules (Courses):

  1. The Conceptual Framework in Palliative Care

  2. Innovation in Health

  3. Research as a Tool for Transformation

  Laboratory Modules:

  1. Innovative Teaching Practices

  2. Development of Technical and Scientific Products

  3. Research Project Development

  4. Laboratory of Technological Innovation Tools

  5. Structured Research Seminar

  Elective Courses:

  • Evaluation of Health Promotion

  • Evaluation of Health Programs and Services

  • Health Evaluation III: Effectiveness Assessment

  • Cellular and Molecular Bases of Immunity

  • Cellular and Molecular Bases of Inflammation

  • Foundations of Molecular and Cellular Biology

  • Biostatistics I

  • Biostatistics II

  • Fundraising and Project Management

  • Design and Methodology of Clinical Research

  • Higher Education Didactics

  • Basic Epi Info

  • Advanced Epi Info

  • General Epidemiology

  • Study of Microcirculation – Clinical and Experimental Aspects

  • Research Ethics / Bioethics

  • Basic Immunology

  • Health Informatics

  • Epidemiological Methods Applied to Health Program Evaluation

  • Research in Databases and Bibliographic Management

  • Qualitative Research

  • Translational Research in Immunology

  • Public Health Policies

  • Scientific Article Writing

  • Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

  • Evidence-Based Health

  • Perinatal Health

  • Advanced Topics in Immunology

  • Advanced Topics in Epidemiology in Translational Research

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Permanent

• Alex Sandro Rolland de Souza

• Ariani Impieri de Souza

• Carla Rameri Alexandre Silva de Azevedo

• Eduardo Jorge da Fonseca Lima

• Flavia Augusta de Orange Lins da Fonseca e Silva

• João Guilherme Bezerra Alves

• Jurema Telles de Oliveira Lima

• Leuridan Cavalcante Torres

• Suely Arruda Vidal

• Suzana Lins da Silva

Collaborators

• Jose Roberto Da Silva Junior

• Leila Katz

• Livia Barboza de Andrade

• Maria do Carmo Menezes Bezerra Duarte

• Maria Julia Gonçalves de Mello

1) 2025 Announcement
SELECTION PROCESS ANNOUNCEMENT – MASTER’S IN PALLIATIVE CARE – CLASS OF 2025

Registration Link:
https://imip.lyceum.com.br/processo-seletivo/home

2) Research Proposal
The following criteria will be considered: a) Feasibility of the research; b) Importance of the topic; c) Originality of the project; and d) Alignment with the advisor’s research line. The research proposal must be prepared according to the researcher’s manual available on the IMIP website (www.imip.org.br) and will be discussed during the interview.

3) Interview

4) Curriculum Lattes Analysis

IMIP has several laboratories available to the entire graduate program, including the Master’s in Palliative Care, such as:

Clinical Analysis Laboratory, Pathology, Molecular Biology and Immunophenotyping, Telemedicine, Imaging, and Translational Research—all with well-structured physical spaces dedicated to IMIP’s research.

The IMIP Telehealth Center (NTES-IMIP) works in partnership with the professional master’s program, supporting intra- and/or inter-institutional demands. Highlights include:

1. Forums – The forums support the master’s program by providing an environment for discussion of the content covered in the classroom. After discussing projects and problems, students use the virtual environment to exchange content and collaboratively build projects.

2. Development of Technical Products – Together with NTES, technical products are developed by faculty and students, such as videos, online courses (EAD), and apps. Additionally, Professor Bruno Hipólito (an external program participant and NTES staff member, with a Master’s in Education from the Pernambuco School of Health), who has a background in informatics and technology, actively participates alongside professors Flavia Orange and Jurema Teles in the courses: Technical Products and Design Thinking/Lean Thinking. It is worth noting that IMIP was a pioneer in master’s thesis examinations by involving professors from other centers, including international ones, virtually through teleconferencing in pre-defense committees.

The professional master’s program benefits from the partnerships of IMIP’s graduate programs (both stricto sensu and lato sensu) as a whole, and therefore maintains a close relationship with the Teaching and Research Departments, integrating undergraduate students and scientific initiation students (PIBIC). IMIP has a long history of cooperation with institutions such as the Ministry of Health and Science and Technology, PAHO, and WHO.

With the National Supplementary Health Agency (ANS), IMIP has established mutual cooperation to promote the exchange of experiences and the joint execution of projects through a network of Collaborating Centers, aiming to improve mechanisms for regulating supplementary health care offered to the Brazilian population.

Integration with society is reflected in the profile of the program’s graduates, faculty, and students, and their involvement in the job market, health and educational systems, and society as a whole. The master’s program is committed to training health professionals with comprehensive knowledge in the field of palliative care assistance and research, enabling them to work in teaching, research, technical-scientific development, scientific production, and continuous improvement of their work environment.

Faculty, students, and alumni participate actively in both public and private health sectors through educational, care, and management activities. Several faculty members hold positions in various institutions such as technical chambers of regional and federal professional councils, state committees, and the Ministry of Health, as well as participation in scientific and representative societies and editorial boards.

The social insertion of the program is undeniable and there is a commitment to continually expand it, considering the objectives of a Professional Master’s degree. The Health Residency enables this insertion, which is further strengthened by the activities of the Professional Master’s program.

Thus, insertion is evidenced in activities such as: training qualified human resources in management and evaluation; preparing professionals qualified to work in the matrix support activities of Residencies in other states, such as Maranhão and Bahia (with IMIP acting as the promoting institution); and through collaboration with other Brazilian graduate programs via researchers from its core faculty.

It is important to highlight, however, the particularities of a professional master’s program where the vast majority of students are enrolled in a health residency program with a mandatory workload of 60 hours per week and a standardized set of activities. This imposes limitations on the possibility of long-term internationalization; nevertheless, students are continuously encouraged to engage in international activities in various ways.

The program promotes short-term internships, especially what we call optional rotations. Additionally, other shorter activities such as participation in events, presentation of papers, articles, and development of projects through distance learning (EAD) have been actively developed and strongly encouraged in collaboration with international agencies and institutes.