Training doctors with human skills and knowledgeable of the world around them is the concern of NOVA Medical School and its students. The Student Association launched the MarcaMundos project in 2016, which promotes, on a voluntary basis, missions in the country and worldwide, in vulnerable populations, guaranteeing access to health care.
In the first year, in partnership with Helpo, a Non-Governmental Organization for Development, two volunteers stayed in Mozambique for a period of six weeks. In 2017, MarcaMundos established a collaboration protocol with AISEC, which allowed medicine students to work in Poland and Indonesia.
Since the students are responsible for raising funds to support the project, medical screenings have been carried out to the public, with 3,000 people enrolled in the first year of the project. Moreover, the project has promoted training to NGOs and social action foundations (e.g. International Amnesty, High Commissioner for Migration), with renowned doctors, as it was the case of the action on medicine in a war scenario, conducted by doctor Carlos Ferreira, specialist in General Surgery who participated in missions for the Red Cross.
On the national side, the project has collaborated with Raríssimas association, which works with children with rare pathologies.