Health

In our group, we have people that cares about other humans and animals. There are many courses that involves the health area, like physiotherapy, medicine, veterinary medicine and biomedicine, which are our fields of interest.

Things that are important to know about those courses:

Medicine:

- It is the hardest course avaiable in regular universities in Brazil, with an average of 90 people per spot (UFRGS).

- It is the longest course, the regular course takes 8 years, but if you decide to do certain specializations it could be up to 14.

Physiotherapy:

- It is a new course that has existed for only five years at UFRGS.
- In some other countries this course does not exist as bachalor degree, just technical.
-The best university in Brazil is in Belo Horizone (UFMG), but UFRGS is among the top 10.

Biomedicine: 

- It's a course that stands between biology and medicine;
- Studies the causes and treatments of diseases;
- You can work as a researcher or a professor;
- The best university in Brazil stays in Pará (UFPA), and the best in the world is in Harvard (USA).

Veterinary Medicine: 
- The course has average duration of 5 years
- You can work in several areas, such as a research center, industry products for animals, be a surgeon...
- Some of the best universities are UFG (Goiânia), UFRGS (Porto alegre), UFMG (Belo Horizonte), UFPR (Curitiba)...

Important character:

One of the greatest scientists in the health area, in our group opinion, is the Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist, Alexander Fleming. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His most important discovery was the antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin, from the mould Penicillium notatum, discovered in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. His discovery of penicillin had changed the world of modern medicine, and has saved, and is still saving, millions of people around the world. Through his life he won many awards and honours, Fleming was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, in 1943, awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by king George VI, in 1944, and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise, in 1948.

Sir Alexander Fleming