The student card is free but mandatory for all students enrolled at the Catolica Medical´s School. It is issued by Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) and offers the student two options:

1. Just an identification card, without an bank account.
2. Identification card associated with a bank account at CGD.

To request its issuance the student must at the beginning of each academic year and on a date to be defined go to the CGD stand available at Catolica Medical School´s and apply for his card. If you are unable to attend on the scheduled dates, you can always go to the CGD agency in Cidade Universitária (Lisbon).

All declarations and certificates are issued by the School Services of Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Therefore, to request one of these documents, you must access the ESCA platform and make a new request following the sequence below:

1st - top menu ‘Updates and Services’
2nd - left side menu ‘Academic Services’
3rd - choose form, fill in and press send button
4th- make the respective payment, whenever applicable

As soon as the documents are issued, they are sent to the Católica Medical School, being available for collection in the Academic and Administrative Area.

Regarding the Universidade Católica Portuguesa equivalence regulation, published in Order NR/C/0332/2019 of October 24, 2019, it is possible for any student to request equivalence of Curricular Units.

The equivalence request must be formalized at the time of enrollment and within the deadlines defined annually for that purpose. The Scientific Council of Católica Medical School is responsible for evaluating, appraising, and deciding on requests for equivalence of previous training.

Attending classes is a right and a duty of students. For all types of classes, a minimum of 2/3 of mandatory attendance is established, except for theoretical classes, unless the coordinator indicates in the Block Book.

In each academic year there are three examination periods: normal, resit and special period.

The access conditions for each of these periods are described in the Regulation of Study Cycles of the Católica Medical School of the Universidade católica Portuguesa.

After the publication of the classifications, each student must be given access to the respective test, corrected and classified, as well as the correction criteria, upon formal request from the student. Requests for revision of the final written exam classifications are addressed and formalized to the UC coordinator, within 2 (two) working days, counting from the date of consultation of the test.

Students who meet the legal and regulatory requirements for their recognition are considered covered by special conditions of attendance, in the following categories:

• Working student;
• Student in mobility;
• Student leader of the association;
• Student with a disability;
• Student practicing high performance sports;
• Students in maternity or paternity situations, firefighter students and military students have the provisions of the general law in force.

After the payment deadline and in accordance with the table of tuition fees for each year, a monthly penalty corresponding to 5% of the missing tuition fee is applied.

To this penalty will be added others, of equal value, for each month of delay in payment, due until full payment of the amount owed.

All consequences of non-payment are communicated to students at the beginning of each academic year.

In accordance with number 5 of article 20 of the Regulation for Access and Admission to the integrated study cycle leading to the Master's degree in Medicine of the Católica Medical School of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in the event of cancellation of registration, within 10 working days after the beginning of classes, on a date to be defined annually, the second and third monthly payments will be refunded, as long as required within the established deadlines. The registration fee and the first monthly fee are non-refundable in case of cancellation of registration.

Cancellation of registration can be requested by the student in an online form available on the academic management platform at any time of the academic year, provided that:

• If the application is formalized by the 10th (tenth) of each month, the tuition fees for that same month and subsequent months are cancelled;
• If the application is formalized after the 10th (tenth) of each month, the tuition fee for that month is due and those for the following months are cancelled.