Federal University of Goiás Offers Free Online Course with 30,000 Spots

Inscriptions for the Positions Offered by UFG Can Be Made Until April 2023, Remotely. The Free Course Will Be Open to the Whole Community

The Federal University of Goiás (UFG), through the Open University of the Unified Health System (UNA-SUS), is offering 30 thousand spots for a free online course that will be aimed at the whole community; however, the course is mainly geared towards candidates interested in the health area. The theme of the free course is “How the Use of Digital Certification Promotes the Legal Validity of Digital Signatures in Brazil?”, according to the G1 website.

Inscriptions for the spots in the free course can be made until April 24, 2023, on the institution’s website. The free course is a professional qualification course, and participating students will receive a 10-hour certificate.

The Goal of the Free Course Is to Promote Reflections on Digital Certification

According to UNA-SUS, the purpose of the free course offered is to promote reflections on digital certification and also discuss its importance in the health area, such as information security in patient health.

The free course will discuss what digital certificates and signatures are, their objectives, applications, benefits, and legal validity in Brazil. The course platform will use video lessons, infographics, world maps, flowcharts, quizzes, podcasts, questionnaires with automated feedback, and supplementary material.

Below is the course description and target audience, according to the information provided by UNA-SUS.

“In this free course, the application of Digital Certification in the health area will be examined, and it will discuss the expected effectiveness in Information Security in Patient Health, a scenario in which health professionals and managers are trained and made aware to use it appropriately.

The Digital Certificate and the Digital Signature are essential to promote the benefits of the digital environment, such as information accuracy and service agility.”

Target Audience for the Free Course Spots

The spots in the free course are aimed at municipal, state, and district health managers,

health professionals with medium or higher education, preferably those who make up the Family Health Strategy teams and use electronic medical records to register health information, information technology professionals, and others interested in the topic.

History of UFG

The Federal University of Goiás was established on December 14, 1960, after a meeting of five higher education schools that existed in Goiânia. From then on, Goiás began to train its own professional staff and no longer depended on qualified labor from other regions of Brazil.

For those from Goiás dreaming of the spots offered by UFG, this created an opportunity for professional and intellectual training in a public, free, and quality institution.

However, this victory for the Goiânia society preceded a process that required significant efforts from teachers and students at the time. In 1959, the teachers from the five schools (areas) that constituted UFG at its foundation formed the “Permanent Commission for the Creation of the University of Central Brazil,” which was chaired by Professor Colemar Natal e Silva, the then-director of the Law School of Goiânia. The purpose of the commission was to design a proposal for the creation of the university and submit it to the National Congress.

Along with the mobilization of the teachers, the Goiânia students, who dreamed of the spots in UFG’s courses, began a fervent movement for the creation of a public university to be maintained by the federal government. They generated, in April 1959, the University Front for Federal Education, which began meetings, hearings, and debates with authorities in assemblies or student congresses, and organized marches and rallies.

Thus, UFG was established, which currently offers various undergraduate courses and continues to provide spots for specialization courses, as mentioned throughout the text.