Who We Are

On August 12, 1959, based on the idealism of a group of independent physicians teaching at the traditional Faculty of Medicine of the University of Brazil, including doctors Armindo de Oliveira Sarmento, Nelson Passarelli, Gastão Dias Veloso, Pedro Alves da Costa Couto, Mário Pinto de Miranda and Pedro Ribeiro de Carvalho, the Carlos Chagas Medical Graduate School was born, with the aim of implementing the teaching of Medical Graduate Studies, which until then was not regulated by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Brazil. Being a pioneering institution, it had as its temporary headquarters the 18th Infirmary of the General Hospital of Santa Casa de Misericórdia-RJ, service of Prof. Pedro Alves da Costa Couto.

In 1964, 14 courses were held, and in 1966, 22 courses were scheduled. In 1967, the idea of ​​creating a Medical Training School was born. The proposal had general consensus, including Profs. Mario Pinto de Miranda, Jarbas Porto, Nelson Passarelli, Gastão Velloso and Pedro Ribeiro de Carvalho. The details of the work of the Organizing Committee for the Implementation of the Medical School, resulted in the creation of the Souza Marques School of Medicine.

In 1975 unfortunately the School was extinguished. All professors agreed that the solution was to create the CARLOS CHAGAS-IPGMCC MEDICAL POST-GRADUATION INSTITUTE, which was approved on September 9, 1975, at the School of Medicine of the Fundação Técnico Educacional Souza Marques. The First Medical Journey of the IPGMCC took place in 1976, on the Campus of the Souza Marques School of Medicine.

Since then, the Institute has trained more than 16,000 graduate students of different nationalities, becoming a national and international reference in Medical Graduate Studies.

In 2019, the then Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Carlos Chagas-ICC received accreditation from the MEC as a Higher Education Institution, with a high quality concept, thus being able to certify Lato Sensu Postgraduate courses.

Today the ICC has more than 62 years of tradition; 29 courses; 29 hospitals; 25 Full Professors, around 380 students, 4,136 monographs, 88 doctors, 70 masters and 62 specialists.

Currently chaired and represented by Ilmo. Mr. Prof. doctor Ricardo Cavalcanti Ribeiro, the ICC is a private institution, of public interest and non-profit, with its own legal personality, intended to support teaching and medical qualification, technological research and health, aimed at promoting activities and purposes of public relevance and social, and configuration as an educational maintainer of universities, colleges and university centers, with headquarters and venue at Av. Beira Mar, n.º 406, Groups 503 to 506 –Castelo, CEP: 20.021-060, in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.