University of Campinas School of Medical Sciences
The School of Medical Sciences (Portuguese: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM) is a college of the State University of Campinas, located in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It offers courses at the undergraduate level in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and speech therapy, as well as courses at graduate and postgraduate level (specialization, master's, doctorate, and medical residency). Affiliated clinical centers are the Clinics Hospital, the Hospital of Sumaré, the Center for Women Integral Health Care (CAISM), the Gastroenterology Center, the Pediatrics Center, the Haemocenter of Campinas, and several others. It has also a nucleus of experimental medical research. The School is considered one of the foremost Brazilian excellence centers in teaching, research and health care services. History
The school was created as the Faculdade de Medicina de Campinas on November 25, 1958, by Decree No. 4996 of the state government, but it only began its operations with the first year of the medical course on December 28, 1962, by virtue of Decree No. 7655, when the State University of Campinas was created and the medical school was incorporated to it. Its first location was in a private hospital in the central area of the city, the Maternidade de Campinas, and clinical teaching was carried out in another philanthropic hospital, the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Campinas. A new Clinics Hospital was built in the central university campus, in the Barão Geraldo subdistrict, and when it was completed, in 1986, the entire school was moved to there. Three new undergraduate professional courses were created in the subsequent years: nursing, speech therapy and pharmacy. Figures
, the Medical School occupies 14 buildings in a total area of more than 40,000  m². It has a teaching faculty of 358 and more than 4,000 students, distributed as follows: 1030 in its four undergraduate courses, 991 in postgraduate school (991 masters and 482 doctorate) and more than 1,500 in 63 different specialization courses. Clinical teaching is carried out in the cluster of health care institutions around the medical school, in seven buildings with a total area of 65,000 m², 403 beds, emergency unit, a surgical center with 16 rooms. The hospital serves ca. 115,000 outpatients, 15,000 surgeries, 150,000 consultations and 1.8 million of lab tests per year, in 44 medical specialties. The hospital has around 3,000 workers. Departments
 Medical genetics
 Pathological anatomy
 Clinical pathology
 Pharmacology
 Clinical medicine
 Orthopedics
 Psychiatry and medical psychology
 Pediatrics
 Gynecology and obstetrics
 Anesthesiology
 Surgery
 Neurology
 Otorhinolaryngology and Ophthalmology
 Radiology
 Preventive and social medicine
 Nursing

Notable faculty and students
 José Aristodemo Pinotti was departmental chairman, school dean and university dean
 Cássio Raposo do Amaral, plastic surgeon
 Domingo Marcolino Braile, heart surgeon
 Gilberto De Nucci, pharmacologist
 Renato M.E. Sabbatini, medical informatician and neuroscientist
 Bernardo Beiguelman, geneticist
 Antonio Martins Filho, pediatrician, was departmental chairman, school dean and university dean

External links
 Faculdade de Ciências Médicas Website. University of Campinas
Nursing schools in Brazil
Medical schools in Brazil