INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Academic Area of Medicine

Specialties
SPECIALIZATION IN INTERNAL MEDICINE

OBJECTIVES
At the end of the specialization course in Internal Medicine, the graduate will be able to graduate will be able to perform the following
following:

• To plan, coordinate and carry out, with scientific foundations and humanistic orientation, the integral care of adult patients suffering from non-surgical conditions.
• To act as a consultant to other specialists and, after an adequate and complete assessment of the patients under his/her care, to request the collaboration of other professionals in a timely manner.
• Design, carry out or collaborate in educational programs aimed at their own professional development, the health team of which they are a part and the patients under their care and their families.
• Apply the scientific method in the investigation of problems of their professional practice and use the results obtained in their solution.
• Know, understand and participate in the administration of assigned resources and activities inherent to medical care.
  

SYLLABUS

SUBJECTS	No. Credits
First Semester
- Morphological Sciences I.	10
- Nosology in Med. Int. I.	14
- Clinical Practice.	20
- Academic Activities.	6
Second Semester
- Morphological Sciences II.	10
- Nosology in Med. Int. II.	14
- Academic Activities.	6
- Clinical Practice.	20
Third Semester
- Physiological Sciences I.	10
- Nosology in Med. Int. III.	14
- Clinical Practice.	20
- Academic Activities.	6
Fourth Semester
- Physiological Sciences II.	10
- Nosology in Med. Int. IV.	14
- Clinical Practice.	20
- Academic Activities.	6
Fifth Semester
-Biochemistry in Med. Int	10
-Nosology in Med. Int. V.	14
-Clinical Practice.	20
-Activities Academic.	6
Sixth Semester
- Pharmacotherapy in Med. Int.	20
- Nosology in Med. Int. VI.	6
- Clinical Practice.	20
- Academic Activities.	6
- Complementary Clinical Training.	60
Seventh Semester
- Nosology in Med. Int. VII.	6
- Academic Activities.	3
- Clinical Practice Complementary.	24
Eighth Semester
- Nosology in Med. Int. VIII.	6
- Academic Activities.	3
- Clinical Practice Complementary.	24
Total :	428

PROFILE OF GRADUATION

Internal medicine is the discipline that encompasses in variable proportion a good part of the non-surgical specialties that deal with adult diseases, and includes integrative aspects such as geriatrics, adolescent medicine, oncology and infectious diseases, however, in order to describe the characteristics of the internist it is necessary to start from the fact that the limits of internal medicine cannot be specified.
The internist is the medical professional trained for the care of adults, with a knowledge so balanced in depth and breadth that he/she can provide comprehensive care, solve problems affecting several devices or systems. Determine the need for the involvement and participation of other specialists and coordinate a health care team. Knows in depth and handles with skill, intelligence and experience more complex medical problems; renounces to attend the generally acute common problems that give rise to the call of the first level, does not include within its sphere of interest of action most obstetric, gynecological surgical problems.
It concentrates its interest and action in all those medical problems involving organs, apparatus and systems that can only be separated into specialties, using arbitrary and conventional criteria. It tries to unite the depth of the specialist with the panoramic vision of the general practitioner.

Characteristics: a medical specialist, dedicated to the study and management of adult diseases. An in-depth knowledge of the natural history and pathophysiology of the most frequent ailments in the environment in which he/she works. An expert in taking a clinical history, with which he/she will be able to make diagnostic hypotheses, developing them and supporting them with the most useful, innocuous and inexpensive diagnostic aids in each case. He/she has a great ability to relate to the patient and his/her relatives. He has a global approach to the patient's problems and is able to establish a hierarchy of them. He is an expert in diagnosis. He is an expert in the treatment of prevalent conditions in adults, especially those that are instituted in multiple or simultaneous form. Is a clinical researcher capable of critically analyzing and taking advantage of the results of other researchers. Possesses a self-criticism that allows him/her to solicit the participation of other specialists in selected cases.

INFORMATION GENERAL

Duration:4 years.
Procedures:June of each year.
Starting date: March 1st of each year.
Venue: General Hospital of Pachuca, of the Health Services of the State of Hidalgo. of Hidalgo.
Sub-hospitals:3rd level hospitals in Mexico City.
National Institute of Orthopedics.
General Hospital of Mexico Orthopedics Service.
National Institute of Cancerology S.S.A. Bone Tumors.
Professional Social Service Unit:
Regional Hospital of Tulancingo, of the Health Services of the State of Hgo. of Hgo.

DOCUMENTATION TO ENTER

• Birth certificate, not older than 40 years of age (original). (original).
• Title (copy in reduction both sides).
• ID (copy of both sides and original only for comparison).
• Certificate of grades of the career (original).
• Diploma and/or certificate of studies of specialty, in case of having completed any other any other specialty specialty (original).
• High School Certificate (original).
• Propaedeutic certificate, in case the student has completed a post-baccalaureate propaedeutic after the baccalaureate (original).
• High school certificate (original).
• Proof of selection in the national exam (copy).
• Letter of Acceptance signed by the Head of Teaching (original).
• Letter of assignment, optional (original).
• Federal Taxpayers Registry (copy and original only for comparison). for comparison only).
• Curriculum vitae (with copy of supporting documents).
• Receipt of payment.
• 4 child-size photographs with front view.

All documents must be in letter size.

REPORTS
Academic Area of Medicine,
Dr. Eliseo Ramírez Ulloa Nº 400, Col. Doctores, Pachuca, Hgo.
Phone: 771 71 7 20 00, ext. 41506
posgradomedicina@uaeh.edu.mx

FULL PROFESSOR: DR. HIPÓLITO ROMÁN NAVA CHAPA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: DR. ALEJANDRO LECHUGA MARTÍN DEL CAMPO