School of Medicine, UNAM

General Secretariat
Building "B" 1st floor
Tel. 5616-1104 and 5623-2403
Fax 5623-2155

OBJECTIVE
Attend the academic affairs of professors and students at a bachelor's degree level and to coordinate academic actions generated by the School itself and the corresponding intra and extra university agencies, harmonizing teaching and research activities as executor of the policies laid down by the Dean's Office.

FUNCTIONS

  • To promote and foster the academic excellence of the School in its bachelor's degree through the interaction of the different Secretaries and Heads of Department, coordinating efforts made to this end.
  • To stimulate the formation of trained human resources permitting the achievement of an appropriate academic level.
  • To supervise compliance with the academic programs in order to achieve adequate performance, based on the profile of the graduate, in the training of human resources that are produced in the School.
  • To coordinate compliance with academic programs that are already in existence.
  • To coordinate the scholarship programs of the Office for Academic Staff Matters, reincorporating scholarship students, programming the yearly needs of the School and the adequate use of scholarships to stimulate bachelor's degree studies.
  • To promote and maintain public relations adequate to the interests of the School at the levels stipulated by the Dean's Office.
  • To stimulate student participation in research projects as a parallel activity to their professional training.
  • To foster and establish educational quality nuclei in the School to stimulate its development and raise its quality through pilot groups and teaching laboratories, in collaboration with the welfare services of the health institutions.
  • The following areas belong to the General Secretariat