Professional Master's Program in Dentistry

Since 2002, São Leopoldo Mandic's Professional Master's Program in Dentistry has been training qualified and competent dental professionals for both advanced and transformative clinical practice and for teaching, research, and outreach.

The programs offered through this Program cover the following concentration areas:

Explore the programs offered within MANDIC's Professional Master's and invest in one of the most important projects of your life: your career.

To this end, MANDIC's Professional Master's fosters the development of human resources focused on applicability and innovation in healthcare; conducts research and technological innovation aimed at solving problems and meeting the demands of the community in which the institution operates, aligned with a development model that prioritizes not only economic growth but also quality of life; maintains a qualified, up-to-date, motivated, and above all institutionally committed teaching and administrative staff. Additionally, we seek to maintain financial self-sustainability through ongoing efforts to secure external funding from companies.

MANDIC's Professional Master's benefits from exchanges and collaborations facilitated by companies in the productive sector, generating products and innovation as well as professional training to meet sector demands. In addition, scientific events and technical visits are organized in partnership with leading market companies, during which technological innovations and new products are presented to faculty and students.

MANDIC's Professional Master's has a duration of 30 to 36 months with four meeting days per month.

A distinguishing feature of the Professional Master's Program in Dentistry is the option for students who are already specialists and seek a master's degree to pursue the Special Master's program, which is designed specifically for those who already hold specialist qualifications. This modality runs for 24 months with bimonthly week-long sessions.

The "Public Health" concentration area, in turn, is multiprofessional in nature and aimed at meeting social demands. Graduates from this area include social workers, pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and psychologists.

MANDIC is grounded in the defense of universally accepted ethical values, including: Respect; Fraternity; Honesty; Tolerance; Quality; Solidarity; Humanization; Commitment; Teamwork; Transparency; Social Responsibility and Sustainability. The following resources are available for the operation of MANDIC's PPG-Dentistry:

The program aims to train professionals with high technical competence for transformative professional practice, based on societal needs and direct public service, as well as equipping them for research and outreach functions, for the development of innovative technical products and productive-sector processes. The program also aims to train professionals capable of working on educational projects, developing human resources in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary manner, contributing to the advancement of Dentistry at international, national, regional, or local levels.

São Leopoldo Mandic is the only Brazilian educational institution to be part of the ORPHEUS group – Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System – a member of the Association of European Universities, which brings together institutions active in health sciences and biomedicine. Among ORPHEUS's missions are: representing higher education and research in biomedicine and health sciences and influencing policy-making both nationally and internationally; promoting cooperation among member institutions and the development of effective bilateral and multilateral networks; facilitating cooperation in research and the development of joint doctoral programs; enabling the harmonization of doctoral programs in biomedicine and health sciences; encouraging the mobility of doctoral candidates and faculty; and stimulating quality assurance in doctoral research and education, particularly the development of an accreditation process for doctoral programs in biomedicine and health sciences.