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Rita Payan Carreira

Full Professor (Department of Veterinary Medicine)

Employment contract in public functions indefinitely

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Doctoral Degree: doutoramento/Ciências Agrárias/Ciências Veterinárias (Univ Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - 2000)
Bachelor's Degree: Licenciatura em Medicina Veterinária ( Escola Superior de Medicina Veterinária | Universidade Técnica de Lisboa - 1985)
Department of Veterinary Medicine Assembly (Member)
CIEP - Center for Research in Education and Psychology of the University of Évora (Collaborating Member)
Ethics Committee of University of Évora (Member)
CHRC - Comprehensive Health Research Centre (Integrated Member with doctorate)
Responsible Unit for Animal Welfare at the University of Évora (ÓRBEA-UÉ) (President)
Ciências Veterinárias - Reprodução Animal e Medicina da Reprodução
Fatores Moleculares Determinantes da Fertilidade na Fêmea
Interacção Embrio-Materna
Fisiologia da Reprodução
Estratégias ativas de aprendizagem
Aprendizagem baseada em estudo de casos
Desenvolvimento de competências de raciocínio clínico

CHRC - Comprehensive Health Research Centre   [Membro Integrado]


CIEP-UE - Centro de Investigação em Educação e Psicologia    [Colaborador]


CECAV - Centro de Ciência Animal e Veterinária    [Colaborador]


 


 


Crithinknet - Rede Portuguesa de Pensamento Crítico

PRR-C05-i03-I-000066 / PRR - Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência
acrónimo: SUMO
finished in 30/09/2025
2020-1-EL01-KA203-078797 / Comissão Europeia
acrónimo: THINK4JOBS
finished in 31/08/2023
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032486 / Portugal 2020 ,FCT ,Portugal 2020 ,Portugal 2020
acrónimo: MULBIOIMPLANT
finished in 30/06/2021
Payan-Carreira, R., Rebelo, H., Cristóvão, A. M., & Sebastião, L. (2026). Scaffolding sustainability: Critical thinking for SDG achievement. In K. Becker, B. J. Farstad, M. A. Folque, J. L. Gómez Ramos, A.-R. Hermetet, M. Ilhéu, L. Pillot, W. Pillot, P. Pohlenz, D. Pust, H. Rebelo, A. Roselli, & J. Scahill (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference Growing up the Future: Education for Sustainability (GROUFES 2026) (pp. 161-174). Atlantis Press. Doi: 10.2991/978-94-6239-760-6_14
Meco M, Carreira RP, Ochota M, Ni?a?ski W. Embryo developmental and morphokinetic patterns in the domestic cat (Felis catus): associations with maternal age and SRT1720 supplementation during oocyte in vitro maturation. Theriogenology. 2026 Oct 15;264:118026. doi: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2026.118026.
J. Catarino, S. Silva, S. Novais, et al., " Raman Spectroscopy for Differentiating High- and Low-Grade Canine Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumours," Veterinary and Comparative Oncology (2026): 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1111/vco.70083.
Azuaga Filho, H., Colaço, B., & Payan-Carreira, R. (2026). The Use of Simulators in Training for Bovine Reproductive Procedures: A Scoping Review. Animals, 16(1), 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani16010140
Payan-Carreira, R. (2025). Advancing Clinical Excellence: Cultivating Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education. In: Development and Trends of Contemporary Higher Education. Jian-Hong Ye, Chuang Xu, Jun Chai, and Weiguaju Nong (Editors) IntechOpen. ISBN: 978-1-83634-645-6. doi: 10.5772/intechopen. 1010937
Azuaga-Filho, H., Santos, A., Colaço, B., & Payan-Carreira, R. (2025). Comprehensive Validation of the TrAI4Nel Simulator for Nelore Artificial Insemination Training: A Controlled Study. Animals, 15(20), 2982. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15202982
Tavares Pereira, M., Aslan, S., Payan-Carreira, R., Reichler, I. M., Reynaud, K., & Kowalewski, M. P. (2025). Placental interleukin 1? signaling in canine pregnancy: differential effects during and after decidualization in vitro. Reproduction (Cambridge, England), 169(4), e240470. https://doi.org/10.1530/REP-24-0470
H. Rebelo, A. Cristóvão, L. Sebastião, R. Payan-Carreira (2025) CRITICAL THINKING IN VETERINARY MEDICINE EDUCATION: PERCEPTIONS OF VETERINARIANS ON THE PREPAREDNESS OF GRADUATES FOR THE WORKPLACE, EDULEARN25 Proceedings, pp. 1923-1931.
R. Payan-Carreira, A. Sacau, D. Ferreira, H. Rebelo, L. Sebastião (2025) CHANGES IN CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND DISPOSITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A BLENDED CURRICULUM IN THREE COURSES OF A VETERINARY MEDICINE PROGRAMME, EDULEARN25 Proceedings, pp. 1434-1440.
Payan-Carreira, R., & Simões, M. (2025). Bluetongue's New Frontier?Are Dogs at Risk? Veterinary Sciences, 12(5), 505. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci12050505
R. Payan-Carreira, C. Santos, D. Santos. (2025). Antioxidant enzyme dynamics suggest the absence of oxidative stress in the canine endometrium across the estrous cycle. Animal Reproduction Science, 275, 107819, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anireprosci.2025.107819.
Azuaga Filho, H., Colaço, B., & Payan-Carreira, R. (2025). Development of a New Simulator for Training Nelore Artificial Insemination. Simulation & Gaming, 56(3), 307-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/10468781251323918
Radar-Chafirovitch, A., Quaresma, M., Yánez-Ortiz, I., Leiva, B., Ferreira-Dias, G., Payan-Carreira, R., Miro, J., & Pires, M. D. A. (2024). Donkey endometrium: Characterization of resident immune cells. Research in veterinary science, 184, 105516. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2024.105516
Catarino J, Pinello K, Niza-Ribeiro J, Santos J, Payan-Carreira R, Reis J, Faísca P. Exploring canine mast cell tumors: An investigation into demographic characteristics, and grading system analysis from a pathology lab data (2019-2021). Prev Vet Med. 2025 Jan 3;236:106416. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2025.106416.
Payan-Carreira, R., Simões, M., Máximo, M., Rebelo, H., & Sebastião, L. (2024). Co-design creation of Critical Thinking embedded activities in clinical courses. In VII Congreso Español y I Hispano-Portugués de Docencia Veterinaria (pp. 244-252). Frontiers Media.
AZUAGA FILHO, H.; PAYAN-CARREIRA, R. & COLAÇO, B. Exploring morphometric features of the female reproductive tract in Brazilian Pantanal cattle. Int. J. Morphol., 42(3):795-804, 2024.
Botelho-Fontela, S., Paixão, G., Payan-Carreira, R., & Esteves, A. (2024). Immunocastration as Welfare Improvement in Outdoor Pig Production Systems. IntechOpen. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.114984
Payan-Carreira, R., Silva, R., Rebelo, H., & Sebastião, L. (2024). Training critical thinking and decision-making using SWOT matrices. In R. V. Nata (Ed.), Progress in Education (Vol. 82, pp. 157-166). Nova Science Publ. ISBN: 979-8-89113-801-8
Payan-Carreira, R., Sacau, A., Silva, R., Rebelo, H., & Sebastião, L. (2024). Changes in critical thinking using a blended curriculum in a veterinary gynecology and obstetrics course. In R. V. Nata (Ed.), Progress in Education (Vol. 82, pp. 167-179). Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 979-8-89113-801-8.
Payan-Carreira, R., Sacau, A., Ferreira, D., Rebelo, H., Sebastião, H. (2024) Enhancing critical thinking: Exploring the impact of blended learning on veterinary medicine students, Proceedings of the VII Congreso español y I hispano-portugués de docencia Veterinaria, Frontiers, june 5-7, Cáceres, Spain, 321-325. ISBN: 9782832512494. 10.3389/978-2-8325-1249-4

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