Medicine
The UFMG School of Medicine’s ten departments research more than 100 topics, using the infrastructure of the Hospital das Clínicas and its 14 labs. Around 60% of the unit’s more than 470 teachers hold a master’s or a doctoral degree, and most of them take part in scientific production.
A large part of the research stems from the 12 Medicine graduate programs offered by UFMG. Among the most developed topics are Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Hematology and Oncology, Gastroenterology and Digestive Tract Surgery, Ophthalmology, and Endocrinology.
There also many publications on Pathology, Surgery, Ambulatory Surgery, Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Spider and Snake Poisons, Transplants, Toxicology, Tropical Medicine, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, AIDS, Fetal Medicine, Oncology, Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Preventive and Social Medicine.

Nursing
More than half the 82 teachers of the School of Nursing, most of whom have master’s and doctoral degrees, are involved in projects that are largely interdisciplinary. Distributed among the unit’s three departments, they work at the university hospitals and in the public health system. Some of their research topics are Education and the Nursing Curriculum, Transmitted Diseases, Work Force, Workers’ Health Quality, and Rites of Death in Senior Citizens’ Memories.

Dentistry
A large part of the School of Dentistry’s 100 teachers, one-fifth of whom hold a master’s or doctoral degree, does research. The strongest groups work with Bio-Safety in Dental Practice, Dental Trauma, Social Representation of Health and Mouth Disease, Orthodontics for Deciduous and Permanent Teeth, Surgery, Peridental Disease and Cyst, and Prevention and Epidemiology of Cavities and other Diseases.

Pharmacy
The School of Pharmacy, which also has four departments, does mostly experimental research. Of the unit’s more than 70 teachers, about 35% hold a doctoral degree and approximately the same percentage have a master’s degree. The most important topics of research are related to the development of new substances and medicines at the school’s laboratories, mainly the Labs of Medicines and of Pharmacognosis and Plant Chemistry.
The Department of Food also develops state-of-the-art research on Biotechnology (quality control and food science and technology). The Department of Clinical Analyses has important works on Parasitology and Applied Toxicology, as well as on Clinical Bio-Chemistry.

Physical Education
The School of Physical Education investigates about 20 research topics. At the two departments linked to the Physical Education program, nearly half the 35 teachers does research, most of which is done in the Labs of Exercise Physiology and of Sport Psychology. Special attention is given to studies of the behavior of the human organism, athlete conditioning, prevention of temperature accidents during exercises, effects of caffeine on the body, and neuroendocrinologic response to exercise. In the Department of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, the main projects are related to Neuropediatrics and to Physiotherapy in Geriatrics. The department’s researchers work at the Hospital das Clínicas and at the Lab of Therapeutic Gymnastics, which belongs to the school.