SELECTION PROCESS 2025

Rectification of the Selective Process Announcement 2022, published in the Diário Oficial Poder Executivo Section I São Paulo 131 (187) – 175 – Tuesday, September 28, 2021.

• SELECTION PROCESS NOTICE 2025 – 1st Edition – CLICK HERE

GENERAL GUIDELINES AND ENROLLMENT
(NOTE THE LINKS IN THE TEXT!)

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Professional Master’s Program in Occupational Therapy and Social Inclusion Processes

The Coordinating Committee of the Occupational Therapy and Social Inclusion Processes Program at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo announces that applications will be open for the selection of candidates for 15 vacancies for the Professional Master’s, to be started in the first semester of 2025, with 11 open to the public and 4 reserved for affirmative action. The vacancies are evenly distributed between the two lines of research in the program: “Daily life, culture and participation in childhood and youth” and “Social participation, work, coexistence and care for adults and the elderly.”

1. REGISTRATION FOR THE SELECTION PROCESS

Candidates with a registered diploma from a recognized undergraduate course by the Ministry of Education or, provisionally, with a certificate or equivalent document, as long as it has a date no later than the last 6 months, counted retroactively from the date of registration in the selection process, will be able to participate in the selection process.

Applications will also be accepted from candidates holding diplomas from undergraduate courses issued abroad.

1.1. Affirmative Action, according to the Affirmative Action Policy of the Program:

1.1.1 – 25% of the total vacancies (4 vacancies) will be reserved for affirmative action, for the following groups of people:

1. Blacks, pretos and pardos, through self-declaration;
2. Indigenous people, through self-declaration;

iii. people with disabilities according to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Decree nº 6949 of August 25, 2009), through self-declaration.

1. Quilombolas, through self-declaration;
2. Migrants for humanitarian reasons, stateless persons, asylum seekers and refugees, through self-declaration and presentation of documentation of legality in the country;
3. Transgender (transvestites, transsexuals and transgender), through self-declaration.

vii. Elderly people, according to the Elderly Statute (Law nº 10.741 of October 1, 2003).

1.1.2 – Beneficiary groups served under affirmative action will compete simultaneously in this modality and also in the vacancies intended for the public modality, according to their classification in the selection process. The option to compete for one of the vacancies reserved for affirmative action will be made voluntarily. The option for the reservation of vacancies must be made at the time of registration through the form with the inclusion of the self-declaration. If not all affirmative action vacancies are filled, they will be reverted to the public modality.

1.1.3. Omitted and doubtful cases not provided for in this notice will be resolved by the Program Coordinating Committee.

1.2 Registration Procedures

Registrations should be made exclusively electronically, at https://digital.fm.usp.br/alunoregular starting on September 16, 2024, at 09:00 AM and ending on October 21, 2024, at 11:59 PM (official Brasília time). Applications will not be accepted outside the period of this notice. After analyzing the documents related to the registration, the Selection Committee will publish on the Program’s website the list of candidates whose registrations have been accepted. Registration will not be made with incomplete documentation. Accepted registrations will be published on the program’s website (https://sites.usp.br/mestrado-profissional-terapiaocupacional/), on October 25, 2024. Candidates with accepted registrations will receive the payment slip for registration, unless they have requested exemption from payment.

In the form, the candidate must attach, in the designated field, a simple and legible copy of:

• CPF;
• RG (for Brazilian candidates). Other identification documents, such as a National Driver’s License or Professional Registration Card, will not be accepted, for example;
• RNM/RNE (for foreigners). The passport will be accepted only for registration purposes, and if the candidate is approved, they must also present proof of residence or student visa or regular migration documents (National Migration Registration Card CRNM/RNE/ Certificates issued by the MJ/PF/ Provisional National Migration Registration Document DPRNM); documentation proving refugee status, stateless status and holder of a humanitarian visa, issued by CONARE or a competent Brazilian government agency;
• Diploma or certificate of completion of a higher-level course, registered with MEC (front and back). In the absence of the diploma, present a statement from the institution of origin of the graduation, recently dated (no more than 6 months counted retroactively from the date of registration). In the case of foreigners, present a diploma or certificate of completion of a higher-level course with equivalent registration in their country;
• Proof of proficiency in English or French with a validity of two years, considering the following tests and institutions:
  • Reading Test in English for candidates for Postgraduate Courses, conducted by Cultura Inglesa, Pinheiros branch, exclusively for the Faculty of Medicine of USP, with a minimum score of 50 points.
  • Test of English for Academic Purposes – TEAP – applied by TESE PRIME, with a minimum score of 50 points.
  • Reading Comprehension, conducted by the United States Cultural Union, with a minimum percentage of correct answers of 50%.
  • Test of English as a Foreign Language – TOEFL® – conducted by Educational Testing Service, in the Toefl Internet-based Test (IBT) modality, with a minimum score of 60 points.
  • Certificates from the Alliance Française (DELF, DALF, TCF and TEF) with a minimum grade equal to 6.0 (six).
• Curriculum Lattes Link

The candidate must attach in “Other documents”, the following files (in pdf with up to 2 MB):

1. a) Curriculum Vitae. The candidate, in addition to informing the link to their Lattes Curriculum in the appropriate field of the form, must submit as an attachment a document in which they present their curriculum vitae, organized according to the following items: 1- identification, address; 2- academic training/titling (graduation, residency, specialization, master’s, professional master’s, doctorate); 3- complementary training (short-term course, improvement, participation in study or research groups); 4- previous and current professional trajectory (institution, bond, period of activity and area of activity); 5- bibliographic production (articles, abstracts and expanded abstracts published in journals, conference proceedings; books and book chapters published; articles accepted for publication; presentation of papers, participation in round tables, workshops and conferences at events; participation in events among others); 6- technical production (advisory and consultancy; short courses taught; preparation of opinions, projects, manuals or booklets; technical report; development of social networks, websites, blogs; participation in the organization and maintenance of exhibitions; artistic and cultural production, among others); 7- orientation (course conclusion work, scientific initiation; extension projects and supervision), 8- participation in committees.
2. b) Research pre-project containing 15 pages in A4 format, typed in Times New Roman 12 font, 1.5 cm spacing, 3 cm margins. The research pre-project should include: Introduction (containing the problem statement and justification), general and specific objectives, methodological procedures, schedule and basic bibliographic references. The cover of the research project must include the title, candidate’s name, intended research line and date.
3. c) Academic record;
4. d) Statement certifying employment that allows them to carry out the academic activities of the program (CLICK HERE) or Statement certifying that they have personal conditions to maintain the academic activities of the program (CLICK HERE).
5. e) Self-declaration of candidates who opted for affirmative action (CLICK HERE).
6. f) Justification for exemption from registration fee for candidates who wish to do so (CLICK HERE).
7. SELECTION PROCESS

2.1. First Phase:

Written essay test, lasting 4 hours, without consultation, on specific themes of the program’s knowledge area, according to the bibliography available on the program’s website (CLICK HERE).

Date: November 5, 2024 (Tuesday), at 2:00 PM, in person. Information will be published soon on the program’s website https://sites.usp.br/mestrado-profissional-terapiaocupacional/

The test will assess specific knowledge, as well as the ability to interpret, argue, synthesize and write. A score from 0 to 10 will be assigned, with 7.0 (seven) being the minimum score for approval. The First Phase test has an elimination criterion. Candidates who opted for affirmative action will receive an additional 2 (two) points in the final score of the first phase. The names of those approved in the First Phase will be published on the program’s website https://sites.usp.br/mestrado-profissional-terapiaocupacional/ by November 14, 2024.

2.2. Second Phase (only for those approved in the First Phase):

2.2.1. Analysis of the Curriculum Vitae organized as previously instructed. The following will be evaluated: academic and complementary training (5.0) previous and current professional trajectory, production (bibliographic, technical) and others (5.0). A score from 0 to 10 will be assigned to the evaluation of the Curriculum Vitae. Classification criterion.

2.2.2. Analysis of the research pre-project, in which the following aspects will be evaluated: relevance of the theme in relation to the context of occupational therapy practices, the area of concentration and the chosen research line (2.0); literature review (1.0); coherence between justification (1.0), objectives (2.0) and method (2.0); quality of presentation and written expression (1.0); suitability for the master’s level (1.0). A score from 0 to 10 will be assigned to the evaluation of the pre-project. Classification criterion.

2.2.3. Individual oral argument about the research pre-project, through which the following will be considered: verbal expression ability, argument consistency, coherence of ideas and defense of the study proposal. A score from 0 to 10 will be assigned to the evaluation of the oral argument. Classification criterion.

The argument will be held in person and scheduled on dates, times and locations that will be published on the program’s website https://sites.usp.br/mestrado-profissional-terapiaocupacional/ by November 21, 2024 and will take place between November 25 and 28, 2024. Requests from candidates residing outside the city of São Paulo for remote oral argument will be analyzed.

For foreign candidates residing outside Brazil, the written test can be conducted electronically in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, as well as the oral argument.

The final score of the Selection Process will be obtained by the arithmetic average of the 4 (four) scores related to the written test, conducted in the first phase, and the analyses of the Curriculum Vitae, the research pre-project and the oral argument, conducted in the second phase. Candidates with a final minimum score of 7.0 (seven) will be considered approved. Candidates who opted for affirmative action will receive an additional 2 (two) points in the final score.

3. RESULTS

Candidates approved and with the best classification will be accepted into the program, observing the available number of vacancies.

The result of the selection process will be published through the program’s website https://sites.usp.br/mestrado-profissional-terapiaocupacional/ on December 13, 2024.

4. REGISTRATION

The registration of selected candidates must be made after the disclosure of the results, according to the guidelines indicated on the program’s website https://sites.usp.br/mestrado-profissional-terapiaocupacional/.

At the time of initial registration, it is mandatory to comply with Article 50 of the USP Postgraduate Regulations (Resolution no. 7493, of March 27, 2018).

Upon enrollment in the Professional Master’s Program in Occupational Therapy and Social Inclusion Processes, the student must strictly adhere to the USP Postgraduate Regulations, the Postgraduate Commission Regulations of the Faculty of Medicine, the Professional Master’s Program in Occupational Therapy and Social Inclusion Processes Regulations and the rules and procedures adopted by the Program Coordinating Committee. It is mandatory for the student to keep informed about these legal and infra-legal texts and others that may arise during the course, consulting the program’s website which is constantly updated.

UPDATE: MARCH, 15TH 2025