Program Overview

Introduction to the Radiology Course

The Radiology Course at UFMG marks the university's entry into the field of Technological Graduations, following the global trend of universities investing in courses focused on professional training and practice. This commitment reinforces the university's dedication to society, ensuring that technological advancements positively impact people's lives and contribute to the country's growth and development.

The Radiology Course

The Radiology Course is designed to form professionals who meet the country's demands, possessing competence, experience, social commitment, and a bold attitude characteristic of the Faculty of Medicine and UFMG. Most of the course's disciplines are taught by professors from the Department of Anatomy and Imaging (IMA) of the Faculty of Medicine, with activities developed at the Faculty of Medicine - Health Campus and the Pampulha Campus of UFMG.

Admission to the Course

Admission to the course is through the Unified Selection System (Sisu), a computerized system managed by the Ministry of Education (MEC), which offers vacancies to candidates participating in the National High School Exam (Enem). Each year, UFMG participates in an edition of the Sisu selection process, always at the beginning of the first semester, with calls for admission in the 1st and 2nd academic periods. Registration is free, in a single stage, and is done online. At the end of the registration period, the best-classified candidates are selected within the number of vacancies offered.

Course Structure

The formation of this professional is based on structuring axes. The axes "Fundamentals of Health Sciences" and "Fundamentals of Physics and Radioprotection" are focused on ensuring specific content suitable for academic and professional performance. The axes "Diagnosis by Image in the Health Area" and "Broad Applications of Radiology" have as their main focus the relationship with the human person, whether the patient, collaborator, or other professionals involved in medical practice. Innovative features include the "Integrating" axis and curricular flexibility, which allow for the manifestation of individual particularities, providing broad, reflective, and adaptable training to the current job market demands.

The course consists of a total of eight periods. In the initial periods, basic disciplines will be offered, where the student must assimilate introductory knowledge necessary for later professional deepening. Consequently, the remaining periods will be constituted by specific activities of the skill being studied, allowing the student to learn techniques and perform procedures for obtaining diagnostic images. At the end of the course, the student, with the aid of a professor-mentor, will elaborate a course conclusion monograph to be submitted to an evaluation board.

Period of Integration

• Time minimum: 3 years and a half (seven semesters)
• Time forecast: 4 years (eight semesters)
• Time maximum: 6 years and a half (thirteen semesters)
• Total workload: 2880 hours

Specific Objectives

• Provide means for integral formation and technical preparation for the conscious exercise of the profession
• Provide solid training, aiming at the student's participation in the process of national technological development
• Form specialized professionals capable of acting in the job market and being attentive to national and international radiological protection norms
• Provide knowledge and professional training in the area of Radiology based on current trends in diagnostic and therapeutic support activities
• Provide the trainee with sufficient knowledge for the management of Diagnostic Imaging services
• Provide knowledge and professional training in the area of peaceful applications of radiation in industry, according to current norms
• Prepare professionals committed to their health assistance work, encompassing psychological, social, and humanistic dimensions
• Promote the valorization of the professional's work as a form of personal, social, and instrumental realization of the country's progress, in the pursuit of full human realization as conscious and professionally competent citizens

Student Profile

The student should have affinities with the exact areas, informatics, and technology of equipment, as well as with the Health area. Their competencies should encompass the domain, improvement, and management of equipment, instruments, and methods in the realization of their activities.

Graduate Profile

A health professional with humanistic, interdisciplinary, critical, entrepreneurial formation, capable of operating equipment that emits ionizing radiation in different areas of specific technical activity, observing national and international norms of radiological protection. Enabled to work in multidisciplinary teams, due to the psychological, philosophical, and humanistic knowledge acquired throughout the course, in addition to the specific knowledge of the health area and administrative knowledge necessary for maintaining quality in customer service, control procedures, and quality management of Diagnostic Imaging services in general.

Professional Performance

The performance of the Radiology Technologist is necessary in Radiology Services such as Analog and Digital Radiology, Mammography, Densitometry, Dental Radiology, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Nuclear Medicine, and Radiotherapy. New areas representing opportunities for the performance of this professional are in industries that use radiographic testing to analyze possible failures in parts and components; medical-hospital equipment industry; in museums and institutions that use radiation as an auxiliary method for verifying the authenticity and recovery of works of art. Other areas of performance are food irradiation facilities and sterilization of medical-hospital products, as well as airports that use Radiology to increase passenger and aircraft safety.

These professionals can also opt to pursue an academic career, taking Lato Sensu Specializations, Master's, or Doctoral degrees.