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The Higher School of Health Sciences (abbreviated in portuguese as ESCS) is a Brazilian public higher education institution, located in Brasília, Federal District. Since 2021 it has been an organic unit of the University of the Federal District Jorge Amaury (UnDF).

It has 2 campuses, one located in Asa Norte, where it offers the medical course, and another in Samambaia, where it offers the nursing course. It also offers lato sensu and stricto sensu graduate programs, in addition to medical and multidisciplinary residency programs.

History
ESCS was founded on April 11, 2001, within the structure of the State Department of Health of the Federal District (abbreviated in portuguese as SES-DF), together with its sponsor, the Foundation for Teaching and Research in Health Sciences (abbreviated in portuguese as FEPECS), with the purpose of develop and improve teaching and learning of Health Sciences, through undergraduate, graduate, research and extension courses, supporting research activities in the health area, within the scope of SES/DF and in partnership with other institutions.

In 2007, ESCS was one of the 8 medical institutions in Brazil that obtained the highest score in ENADE, being the best placed medical school in the Federal District.

On July 26, 2021, ESCS became an organic unit of the University of the Federal District Jorge Amaury (UnDF).

Teaching methodology
The medical graduation course at ESCS was designed according to the national curriculum guidelines, through the adoption of a pedagogical model characterized by three principles: student-centered learning, problem-based teaching, and community orientation, allowing the student to leave from the role of passive receiver of information to that of agent, primarily responsible for their learning, along the lines of constructivist didactics. This methodology is known as active learning, where there are two approaches: problematization and problem-based learning (PBL).

The new curricular concept of the graduation course in medicine is based on 3 main axes:


 * Thematic modules: which stipulates that the contents must be learned in the form of problems;
 * Skills and attitudes: which make students learn more frequent clinical and surgical procedures and also train the approach that should be taken to the patient and his family, and;
 * Teaching-services-community interaction: where the student learns to work with his community and to value the basic health network where he is inserted.

Teaching sites
During the first 4 years of the medical course, students, under supervision, are inserted early in practical activities in health services, including most SES-DF hospitals and multiple primary care units.

In addition to it's own anatomy, histology, simulation and informatics laboratories on the Asa Norte campus, there are also opportunities for improvement in the central laboratory of the Blood Center in Brasília.

The Asa Norte campus also has its own library. Its students also have access to the libraries of SES-DF's hospitals.

Student admission
Until 2015, admission was through an annual entrance exam, initially carried out by the UFRJ Electronic Computing Center (abbreviated in portuguese as NCE/UFRJ) until 2012, when it then began to be carried out by the Brazilian Center for Research in Evaluation and Selection and Promotion of Events (abbreviated in portuguese as Cebraspe/UnB).

Since 2016, admission started to be carried out by a nacional exam know as ENEM. Both the faculty of medicine and nursing are organized annually, with 80 spots offered per year for each course, 60% (48) for broad competition and 40% (32) for public school students.

Ranking
In the 2011 national ranking (ENADE), ESCS obtained the fourth best performance among all medical courses in the country. It reached a grade of 4.48, obtaining the maximum grade in rounding grades, and occupying the 1st position in the ranking of medical schools in the Federal District.

In the updated national ranking of 2019, ESCS maintained its position in 1st place among the medical schools in the DF, receiving a grade of 3.7935 and occupying the 39th position among all the faculties of medicine in Brazil.

Ligações externas

 * Institution's website