The Cardiology Postgraduate Program at FMUSP relies on the infrastructure of the Heart Institute (InCor) of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo. In addition to the entire healthcare structure of InCor, it has laboratories with clinical, research and teaching activities, functioning as a research platform for postgraduate activities. It is important to highlight that approximately 10% of InCor’s 75,000 m2 represent exclusive areas for the development of research activities, including the laboratories below and a Translational Research Center and a Preclinical Research Support Center:
- Medical Informatics Laboratory
- Immunology Laboratory
- Genetics and Molecular Cardiology Laboratory
- Cardiac Pathology Laboratory
- Lipid Metabolism Laboratory
- Pulmonary Ventilation Laboratory
- Exercise Physiology Laboratory
- Vascular Biology Laboratory
- Organ and Tissue Research Laboratory
FMUSP Medical Research Laboratories (LIMs) (Genetics and Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, Pulmonology Laboratory, Cardiovascular Surgery Laboratory, Histocompatibility and Cellular Immunity Laboratory, Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory, linked to the Cardiopneumology Department).
InCor has 150 Intensive Care Unit beds, which have state-of-the-art hemodynamic monitoring, as well as monitoring and ventilatory support, circulatory support and neurological support. In addition, InCor is the only public university hospital that has circulatory assistance technology available, with high-tech devices such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and artificial ventricles. All of this material is available to our Program.
It is also worth mentioning that our institution has 3,300 employees, a library with a collection of 1,782 books, and annually receives 125 residents in the areas of cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, pulmonology, thoracic surgery and anesthesiology, in addition to 134 interns in the health area. This large number of professionals in contact with thousands of heart disease patients and with the infrastructure for care, teaching and research, offers our Program a unique platform for the development of projects capable of adequately training students and having a potential impact on society.
The multi-user research vision is inherent to the structure of the Hospital das Clínicas, which, in an interdisciplinary manner, promotes the integration of services and the research platform among the institutes that comprise it (InCor, Central Institute, Cancer Institute, Orthopedics Institute, Pediatrics Institute, Psychiatry Institute, Radiology Institute, Rehabilitation Institute and supporting hospitals).
The Library, Scientific Documentation and Didactic Service “Prof. Luiz Venere Décourt” of InCor/HC-FMUSP has a collection specialized in cardiology. Access to the information in the collection is online, available on the Library website.