Patricia Rosado Pinto is Head of the Medical Education Department at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (Faculty of Medical Sciences - FMS) of NOVA University, Lisboa, Portugal. She is an invited Professor in the undergraduate and post-graduate programmes of FMS where she teaches academic skills. After her Masters in Education from the University of Caen, France, she received her PhD in Education (Teachers’ Training) from Instituto de Educação (former Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação) of Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
She has been running Higher Education teachers’ training courses for the last twelve years and presently coordinates the Professional Development Unit at Nova’s Teaching Quality Office where she has been responsible for organizing and delivering transversal pedagogical courses dedicated to NOVA’s academic staff and for producing pedagogical documentation to support the teaching activity at the University. She is a member of NOVA’S Teaching Quality Committee. She is the Vice Director of NOVA’s Doctoral School.
She has been involved in several national and international Continuing Medical Education programmes and in educational consultancy activities (both in Europe and in Portuguese Speaking Countries – Brasil, Angola, Cabo Verde). She is the National Educator for the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and has been responsible for the training of several European National Educators.
Her fields of expertise and publication are Medical Education and Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. (teachers’ pedagogical competencies; problem-based learning; concept maps).