NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS
UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
MASTER'S DEGREE AND PH.D. DEGREE IN
MEDICAL, DENTAL
AND HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAM
With the joint participation of :
SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY
AND LETTERS
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
CELL PHYSIOLOGY INSTITUTE
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
AND
HEALTH CENTER
SIGLO XXI NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, IMSS
“DR. SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN”
“RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ”
NATIONAL NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY INSTITUTE
NATIONAL PERINATOLOGY INSTITUTE
DEGREES AWARDED
MASTER OF SCIENCE
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
LENGTH OF STUDIES
Master's Degree (4 semesters)
Ph.D. - Beginning (8 semesters)
Ph.D. - Advanced (4 semesters)
Purpose of the Program
The Program is aimed at training
leaders in medicine and dentistry for the XXI century. In the years to come,
it will be necessary to transform our health system so that it can respond
to the new requirements that the advances in medical sciences and the needs
of health demand. This scenario makes it a priority matter to train human
resources with the ability to innovate the national health system, combine
high level scientific research with professional practice and multidisciplinary
team work in order to contribute new knowledge to the health-disease process.
For this reason, graduates from
all areas of knowledge without exception - Humanities and Arts, Biological
and Health Sciences, Social Sciences or Physical, Mathematics and Engineering
Sciences - have the opportunity to join the Program.
The Program offers its students
a wide range of academic possibilities that come within three Fields of Knowledge:
Medical Sciences, Dental Sciences and Health Sciences. These fields are sustained
by their solid academic and physical infrastructure and by the synergy between
schools, institutes and centers of UNAM and the most prestigious Institutions
of the Health Sector that permit:
· A tutorial system
with more than 300 academics
· High level clinical fields
· Competitive laboratories and equipment
· Information Centers
· Red UNAM (the University
network), and on-line connection
with the National Digital Medical Library.
This makes it possible to comply
with the main objective of UNAM: to train academics and professionals of the
highest level.
ACADEMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROGRAM
· A flexible curricular
system that favors the articulation of different fields of study
· The development of research lines
with inter and multidisciplinary projects
· A graduate profile
by competencies
· The development of
skills for self-directed learning
· Collegiate functioning
· The shortening of
training times, since the medical or dental specialty can be studied at the
same time as the master's degree or Ph.D.
· A Program of excellence,
included in the list of postgraduate courses of excellence of the National
Council for Science and Technology
Academic Structure
The Program
is structured around:
Fields of
knowledge, Academic development areas and Main fields of study
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MEDICAL SCIENCES FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE
Academic Development Area
Medical and Surgical
Main Fields of Study
The 74 specialties included in
the Sole Plan of Medical Specialties (SPMS)
DENTAL SCIENCES
FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE
With two Academic Development Areas
a. Clinical Dental Sciences
Main
Fields of Study
The 10 dental specialties in
the Sole Plan of Dental Specialties (SPDS)
b. Basic Dental Sciences
Main Fields of Study
Dental Biomaterials
Buccal Biology
Community Dentistry
HEALTH SCIENCES FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE
With three Academic Development Areas
a. Epidemiological
Main
Fields of Study
Epidemiology
Clinical Epidemiology
Health at Work
b. Sociomedical
Area
Main Fields of Study
Medical Education
Dental Education
Public Mental Health
Health Systems
c. Humanities in the Health Field
Main Field of Study
Bioethics
General Curricular Organization
The general organization of the
academic activities that comprise the study plan is structured around 4 curricular
cores:
I. In-depth study of
the main field of study
Organizes
the specific contents of each of the different study fields (Major Area) offered
by the Program. The student acquires dominion of the paradigms, the conceptual
evolution of frontier knowledge and current problems.
II. Methodological and
instrumental training
Brings together the
academic activities aimed at the student acquiring the methodological competencies
necessary to carry out research, that is, the knowledge, procedures, techniques
and skills in handling instruments or or designing instruments for the measurement
of psycho-social variables by means of which new knowledge will be obtained
in the different main fields of study.
III. Complementary education
Implies the integration of a
second field of study or minor areas of the Program (minor) by means of which
the student can support the research for his/her thesis and is able to work
with multidisciplinary approaches.
IV. Research activities
These activities are based on
a research and thesis seminar programmed for each semester and on the research
work that is developed directly with a main tutor and/or tutorial committee
which favors the early participation of the student in planning and carrying
out research.
GRADUATE PROFILE
MASTER
OF SCIENCE
Is expected to be an individual:
· With a broad culture, who has
dominion of his/her field of study shown in his/her knowledge of theoretical
paradigms, handling of the methods used to obtain knew knowledge and ability
to carry out directed research.
· Able to contribute to both academic
and professional problem solving.
· With the capacity to apply the
acquired knowledge and transmit it adequately, and the ability to interrelate
his/her field of study with at least one other discipline.
· Having the values and social
commitment required by change and innovation.
DOCTOR
OF SCIENCE
· With a broad culture, innovative,
oriented towards generating, preserving, transmitting and applying advanced
knowledge in his/her field of study. With the ability to carry out research
independently and to test hypotheses with methodological rigor.
· Able to identify and solve complex
academic and professional problems of the highest level.
· Capable of contributing original
knowledge and transmitting it adequately. With the aptitude to lead this process
within a social network that requires inter and multidisciplinary team work
and collaboration with research teams, the exchange of knowledge, participation
in the training of human resources and the management of research projects.
· Having a capacity for leadership
and competence beyond what he/she learned as a student and the ability to
put forward innovative solutions.
SELECTION AND ENTRANCE PROCESS
In order to be admitted to the Program, all candidates for
the Master's Degree, Ph.D. - Beginning and Ph.D. - Advanced , shall participate
in and pass a competitive selection process consisting of:
· Accreditation
of examinations of knowledge and intellectual abilities
· Review
of curriculum vitae
· Personal
interview(s)
· Accreditation
of the English reading co
· Presentation and defense of his/her research
protocol.
For registration to be valid,
it must be completed in the periods stipulated by the Academic Committee and
comply with the provisions of the University Legislation, the General Postgraduate
Studies Regulations and the Program.
See Entrance Examination Notice.