Neurology – Identity and Training

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  • Miguel Viana-Baptista Serviço de Neurologia, Hospital Egas Moniz, Unidade Local de Saúde de Lisboa Ocidental, Lisboa, Portugal; NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Centro Clínico Académico de Lisboa, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6166-2073
  • Luís F Maia Serviço de Neurologia, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António - Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António, Porto, Portugal; Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal; i3S–Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • Sónia Batista Serviço de Neurologia da Unidade Local de Saúde de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Pedro Nascimento Alves Laboratório de Estudos de Linguagem, Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Unidade de AVC, Serviço de Neurologia, Hospital de Santa Maria, Unidade Local de Saúde de Santa Maria, Lisboa, Portugal
  • Marcelo Mendonça Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Digital Neurotherapeutics Centre and Neuroscience of Disease Programme, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal &NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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https://doi.org/10.46531/sinapse/ED/228/2026

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Neurology/education

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2026-04-02

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Viana-Baptista M, Maia LF, Batista S, Nascimento Alves P, Mendonça M. Neurology – Identity and Training. Sinapse [Internet]. 2026 Apr. 2 [cited 2026 Apr. 3];26(1):3-6. Available from: https://sinapse.pt/index.php/journal/article/view/228

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Vol. 26 No. 1 (2026): January - March

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