Presentation

The Professional Master’s Program in Imaging Sciences and Medical Physics (MP CIFM) at FMRP USP was created in 2013, with the first class starting in 2014, and is now in its third quadrennial CAPES evaluation. It has 2 (two) Areas of Concentration: Diagnostic Imaging and Medical Physics and 6 (six) Lines of Research: Neuroimaging, Interventional Radiology, Radiotherapy and Medical Physics, Musculoskeletal System, Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Imaging. The Lines of Research are comprehensive enough to develop projects directed at various topics of interest and impact for the Areas. From 2021 to 2024, the Program awarded 36 (thirty-six) students with approved dissertations made available on the USP Thesis Portal (https://www.teses.usp.br/), totaling 113 graduates since its creation, indicating consolidation of its main activity, which is the continuous production of human resources. The main objective of the program is the development of highly qualified human resources, with the capacity for innovation, critical thinking, understanding and application of the scientific method, as well as leadership in the areas of concentration in Diagnostic Imaging and Medical Physics. Graduates have occupied prominent positions in SUS and complementary health services, with transformative and impactful performance. The innovation of the program’s products lies in the creation of new knowledge about various aspects of the research projects distributed in the aforementioned lines, whether in the development and application of new methodologies to solve specific problems in the differential diagnosis of various diseases and conditions by imaging (including computer tools and artificial intelligence), in the application of innovative techniques in the treatment of diseases (mainly in Interventional Radiology and Radiotherapy), in the reinterpretation of relatively common and old problems in the aforementioned areas, in the presentation of new solutions for the infrastructure of storage and distribution of digital images and in the application of quantitative methods in the evaluation of diagnostic images. Thus, the mission of the Program is aligned with the mission of the Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine and the University of São Paulo to train excellent human resources to work in the health sector in Brazil, including a commitment to the Unified Health System. The Program provides training for professionals to work in the health sector with a high level of qualification and leadership potential, based on ethical, moral, scientific and humanistic precepts.