Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil
Experts
Specialties
Palliative Care and Internal Medicine
Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery
Multidisciplinary Groups
Learning Resources
Trainings: Training Actions
Primary purpose: Offers courses, training, workshops and events in the health field. Provide various types of training, like patient safety, basic course in palliative care, good practices in stomal therapy, etc.
Target audience: Health care professionals.
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Training: Medical Internship
Primary purpose: To provide a supportive environment for intern doctors, ensuring successful training, compliance with programs, and fostering professional and personal growth while contributing to the institution's development and innovation.
Target audience: Intern doctors.
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Investigation: Investigation Project
Primary purpose: To explore, analyze, and gather information about a specific topic, issue, or problem in order to generate insights, make informed decisions, develop solutions, and contribute to knowledge or innovation within a particular field or context.
Target audience: Scientists in the health care field.
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Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods
Diagnostics
| Radiology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | CT scanners | Yes | 24199 (2021) |
| Machine | MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) | Yes | 3551 (2021) |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | Yes | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | Yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Camera | Yes | |
| Technique | MRI-guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Ultrasound guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | CT guided biopsis | Yes | |
| Technique | E/S Fine-needle biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | Yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | SPECT | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT CT | Yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Cytology laboratory | Yes | |
| Facility | Histopathology laboratory | Yes | |
| Technique | Liquid biopsy | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Colonoscopy | Yes | 2078 (2021) |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Head and neck surgery | Yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | 4 | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | 3 | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IGRT | 3 | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS | 1 | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | 1 | |
| Technique | Thermal ablation (with radiofrequency or microwave) | Yes (microwave) | |
| Technique | 3D conformal radiotherapy | Yes | |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Medical oncologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Nurse with a specialisation/certification in palliative care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physician specialised in pain treatment | Yes | |
| Specialist | Neurologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Psychiatrist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Pharmacist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Social worker | Yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Clinical Trial Center | Yes |
Prevention
| Screening and Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Smoking detoxification center | Yes |
Resource: Teleconsultation
Primary purpose: To enable remote consultations and interactions between healthcare professionals or between professionals and patients using technology, facilitating the assessment of clinical history, healthcare planning, and coordination.
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Resource: Accessible contact for deaf citizens
Primary purpose: To facilitate communication through video calls between deaf citizens and Portuguese Sign Language interpreters, ensuring access to healthcare services and professionals 24/7 via SNS 24 without any associated costs.
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Resource: Informative Guides
Primary purpose: To provide supportive and informative guides for patients and citizens alike. It includes general guides containing information regarding hospital visits, consultations, treatments, prevention and information guides on diseases, treatments, palliative care, etc.
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