Program Overview

Program Overview

The Program of Postgraduate Studies in Nutrition and Sports Science and Metabolism (PPG-CNEM) offers stricto sensu courses at the master's and doctoral levels. The program has two areas of concentration and two lines of research focused on current challenges in the production of knowledge in the areas of Food and Nutrition, Metabolism, and Physical Activity.

History and Accreditation

The courses were implemented in 2011 (Master's) and 2013 (Doctoral) and received a score of 5 from CAPES in the last Quadrennial Evaluation (2017/2020).

Objectives

The main objective of the program is to train masters and doctors committed to professional ethics, multidisciplinary vision, critical sense, and responsibility to society and the advancement of knowledge in the health area. The program seeks to provide a solid foundation for highly qualified human resources, capable of exercising teaching and research activities, using the scientific method, with intellectual independence, and committed to scientific dissemination.

Target Audience

The target audience of the program includes professionals such as nutritionists, sports scientists, physical education professionals, biologists, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, doctors, dentists, and veterinarians, as well as professionals from exact and human sciences who can interact multidisciplinarily with the program's research lines.

Mission, Vision, and Values

Mission

The mission of the PPG-CNEM is to train human resources committed to professional ethics, multidisciplinary vision, critical sense, and responsibility to society and the advancement of knowledge in the health area. The program also aims to capacitate highly prepared graduates for the exercise of teaching and research, as well as for acting as promoters of public policies and applied sciences, using the scientific method, with intellectual independence.

Vision

To be a reference program in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge, generation of technological advances, and applications in public policies, as well as to be recognized internationally for conducting research at the forefront of knowledge in the areas of nutrition, food, biological compounds, physical exercise, and their relationships with health.

Values

• Education of excellence, based on scientific evidence, humanistic values, and responsibility.
• Professional training with proactivity, leadership, critical sense, creativity, independence, and protagonism.
• Construction and exercise of interdisciplinarity and different modes of knowledge construction for teaching, research, innovation, and extension.
• Respect for intellectual freedom.
• Respect and promotion of diversity and plurality.
• Commitment to democratic, transparent, participatory, innovative, and efficient management.
• Constant exercise of criticism and self-criticism.
• Engagement with the external community, through local actions based on solid, measurable, and reproducible research results.
• Internationalization, with a focus on excellent scientific dialogue.

Areas of Concentration and Research Lines

The program has two areas of concentration and two lines of research focused on current challenges in the production of knowledge in the areas of Food and Nutrition, Metabolism, and Physical Activity.

Admission and Selection Processes

Information on admission and selection processes is available, but details are not provided in the given context.

Program Structure

The program includes the following components:

• Comissăo do Programa (Program Committee)
• Corpo Docente (Teaching Staff)
• Organizaçăo e Estrutura Curricular (Curricular Organization and Structure)
• Disciplinas (Disciplines)
• Defesas e Qualificaçőes (Defenses and Qualifications)
• Internacionalizaçăo (Internationalization)
• Infraestrutura (Infrastructure)
• Regulamentos e Normas (Regulations and Norms)
• Discentes e Egressos (Students and Graduates)
• Produçőes Acadęmicas (Academic Productions)
• Destaques e Premiaçőes (Highlights and Awards)