[2] In the last few years, the School of Medicine has 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 for students.

Knowledgeable about these skills and attitudes, the graduate will be a medical doctor able to give quality assistance, acting for the promotion of health, disease prevention, and in the recuperation and rehabilitation of the sick.

From the tenth onwards, the students take part in the urgent and emergency services, as well as in hospital inpatient care, always under faculty supervision.

The course offered at UFMG proposes a generalist and interdisciplinary formation focused on the scientific and social aspects of Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology.

The Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology Outpatient Clinic, where the internships take place in the Hospital das Clínicas facilities, is composed of 11 rooms planned for patient care, which is provided free of charge for the population.

Ever since the creation of the first graduate course in 1968, over a thousand MA theses and about 400 PhD dissertations have been approved at the UFMG School of Medicine.

Applications can be submitted in October every year, and the exams take place in November and December, in two phases consisting of objective questions on general knowledge of Medicine and the analysis of the students’ curricula.

The extension programs developed at the UFMG School of Medicine seek to establish educational, cultural, and scientific interactions between University and society.

This relation allows the students to elaborate on the praxis of academic knowledge, by means of an interdisciplinary work based on the contact with the Brazilian national and regional realities.

The School has dozens of laboratories and has important national and international funding partners, including Fapemig, Finep, Capes, CNPq, and the European Union, besides UFMG's own Office for Research Affairs.

In the past years, there was an intense expansion in the number of books, chapters and articles published in scientific journals, rising from 0.5 per faculty member in 1990 to 1.9 in 2006.

Presently, the Health & Culture program, a partnership with the Nursing School and the Hospital das Clínicas, promotes theatrical, musical, and dance events, as well as movies and exhibitions.

In 1920, CAFM launched his first periodical - “Radium” - which was dedicated not only to academic publications in the various areas of medicine, but also to news about the new capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, which was still flourishing.

After the death of Professor Alfredo Balena, the then CAFM was renamed DAAB and, a year later, in 1960, as part of the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine, the new headquarters was inaugurated, with 450m2.

Despite that, the DAAB continues to work to improve teaching at FM-UFMG and to make the student's voices heard within Collegiate meetings and Departmental Chambers.

The motto “For Education as the Practice of Freedom” is quite representative of what the management of this Directory proposes to build together with the academic community each year.

The Conclave Médico Desportivo organizes the UFMG School of Medicine participation in the Minas Gerais Intermed, which gathers students from all medical courses statewide in sports matches.

The Napem also takes part in cultural activities, debates and research on emotional issues that affect the students’ as well as the professionals’ lives.

Idealized by Professor Baeta Viana, the Association was founded in 1953 in order to maintain a permanent link between alumni and the School of Medicine.

The School of Medicine is located in the UFMG Health campus, on an area of 104,000 m2 in the hospital district in central Belo Horizonte.

A special unit inside UFMG, the university public hospital houses activities in teaching, research and assistance.

It monthly provides 25,000 walk-in consultations, with a mean of 1,600 inpatients, 2,000 surgical procedures and 280 births of medium and high complexity.

Located on a building with a total area of 3152 m2, distributed onto four floors, the Peripheral Library in the Health campus receives over 100,000 monthly consults.

Linked to the UFMG Library System, constituted of 28 units, it is a modern center for information services, with internet access and book check-out, with a total of over 53,000 volumes.

One of its initiatives is the Simulation Laboratory, where, every semester, over 500 students use computers, mannequins, anatomic models, and equipment for the reproduction of procedures such as gynecology exams, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation practices, tracheal intubation, and the administering of medication.

In the Center for Tele-health (Nutel), information and communication technologies are used as tools for the qualification of health professionals and for the discussion of clinical cases in videoconferences and long-distance consultations.