| Title awarded: Family Medicine Specialist |
| SNIES Code 111582 |
| Qualified Registration: Resolution n.º 6812 of April 26, 2023 of the MEN, validity: 7 years. |
| Duration of the Program: 6 semesters |
| Number of academic credits: 198 |
| The program is attached: Faculty of Health Sciences and Basic Sciences |
| Academic Level: Postgraduate |
| Level of training: Medical-surgical specialization |
| Methodology: On-site |
| Location: Neiva, Huila, Colombia |
| Periodicity of admission: Semiannual |
| Contact us: +57 317 514 1730 - 8740089 - 8722049 - 8711199 |
Presentation of the program
Family Medicine, more than an area of medical knowledge, is an integrating axis of medical practice, which provides holistic and humanized medical care to the person; performing particular processes of characterization, validation of information, management, education and proposal of intervention strategies to focus them on primary health care from a systemic, generalist, differential and inclusive approach that promotes the care of the individual, his family and his community.
This specialization focuses its work on the person; involving the globality and complexity of the being, taking into account both the physical and psychosocial component of the individual and the determinants that modify and maintain their health. For family medicine, health is more than a state of "Well-being", it is the objective and subjective amalgam of factors that, from each of the individual and family life cycles, tend to the harmonious development and the experience of the individual immersed in a social sphere. For this reason, an ethnographic approach is involved where social, family and community relationships and the relationship with the disease itself are pillars of the care process. The ethnographic vision of Family Medicine allows the differential approach of the individual, the family and its cultural group, allowing the production of cost-effective strategies aimed at maintaining the health of specific groups according to their characteristics and needs.
The knowledge and work of the Family Medicine specialist is transversal to the different medical specialties, not as a professional hoarder of knowledge, but as an integrating specialist, mediator and coordinator of medical care, ensuring its resolvability and timeliness. His approach moves away from the separatist perspective and involves the generalization of medical knowledge to provide comprehensive care to individuals, families and communities.
The specialization in Family Medicine is the result of a need for holistic care based on the individual and not on the disease. Due to its principles and focus on prevention, it is a pioneer and fundamental support in integral processes of Primary Health Care and maintenance of the health of individuals, families and communities.
General requirements
According to the institutionally determined enrollment requirements, applicants to study a postgraduate Medical-Surgical program at UNINAVARRA must submit the following documents:
1. Registration form duly completed.
2. Receipt evidencing payment of registration fees.
3. Photocopy of the identity document (citizenship card/foreigners card or passport).
5. Resume with the supports.
6. Accredit a university degree in the program of Medicine, in a Colombian Institution of Higher Education duly recognized and authorized by the Ministry of National Education, or a foreign one recognized by the competent authority of the country of origin and whose degree is validated by the Ministry of National Education, equivalent to Medicine.
7. If you are not Colombian, you must provide a Student or Resident Visa.
Specific requirements
As stated by AGREEMENT NUMBER 03 OF 2015 (May 25, 2015) of the Faculty Council of Health Sciences, which regulates the admission process for Clinical-Surgical Postgraduate Degrees, the following specific requirements were established for admission to the Specialization in Family Medicine program.
1. Evaluation of the curriculum vitae with the supports.
2. Knowledge test.
3. Demonstrate comprehension of texts in English through a proficiency test in an institution provided by UNINAVARRA, obtaining the independent or intermediate level, i.e. level B1. Specifically in the reading comprehension component. It can also be demonstrated by presenting a certificate that proves that the student has the B1 level, according to the EMCR in this skill.
4. Interview.
5. Psycho-technical test.
Applicant Profile
To enter the postgraduate program, the applicant must have studied medicine and certify a medical degree as a graduate of a higher education institution recognized by the Ministry of National Education or abroad (for which he/she must provide the resolution of validation in which it is demonstrated that the program studied and the degree obtained is equivalent and recognized by the MEN in Colombia as a Physician).
The applicant's profile should demonstrate medical knowledge and interest in social aspects as determinants of health, sufficient for a good performance in the training process in the Family Medicine Specialization.
Must have social sensitivity and humanistic principles, showing interest in caring in an integral and continuous way to people, in the different life cycles, their families and communities in health matters. Willing to contribute with his/her work and professionalism in the reduction of health inequities.
Graduate profile
The specialist in Family Medicine, graduated from UNINAVARRA will be characterized by being a professional with a general knowledge base in medicine and with specialization in the maintenance of the health of the individual in their different life cycles.
A skilled specialist who is familiar with community immersion tools, public health policies and generates strategies that positively impact national health indicators.
A person-centered professional with the pluripotential resolution capacity to work in primary health care, hospital, emergency, rehabilitation, palliative care and administration of health services and policies.
An ethical community leader who will be highly committed to the region, the country and the research processes that generate knowledge in the areas concerning health and its determinants.
To fulfill this profile, the graduate physician will have the following attributes:
- Have a profound ability to establish a patient-physician relationship based on empathy, which will be transferred to his or her family and the community in which he or she is immersed.
- Given the characteristics of their training, they must have a high level of resolution and management skills. optimal prevalent health problems affecting different age groups, limiting the patient's mobility to more complex levels of care, which translates into the optimization and rationalization of health system resources.
- Their communicative and administrative skills enable them to act as leaders of the health care teams, facilitating the interaction of other medical specialties and other health care professional, focusing efforts on the wellbeing of individuals and the community environment.
- His ability to relate to the community, his ethnographic knowledge, his knowledge of and to investigate based on their needs, to be able to identify the problems and to and, based on its diagnosis, to focus its efforts on the education and training of the with a differential focus on self-care and self-knowledge.
- To have competences in adaptive processes to the particular characteristics of the environment, respecting the cultural, behavioral and communicative differences of the community.
- To be aware of the institutional support networks inherent to the community and its and of governmental and non-governmental programs that can be used to improve the quality of the as a support to the needs of the population, serving as a connector between them and the individual.
- Their work will be focused on health promotion and disease prevention, as a fundamental element that generates social change, taking into account the principle of the cost-benefit ratio, which is of vital importance in the face of health systems with extensive limitations. economic.
- Thanks to your knowledge in research and ICTS be able to create scientific information. and innovative strategies that it applies to research, education and transformation. individual and collective.
- It does not make presumptions about the individual, but rather, after a process of characterization involves the reality of the person and his or her context and uses simple tools that to evaluate, analyze and assist in the process of transformation of deleterious paradigms and motivates the process of adopting healthy habits, both physically and mentally, of self-care and mutual care.
- He is a human being concerned about ensuring that people regain their dignity in the whole process of care towards the improvement of their quality of life.
Dr. Isidro Torres Castro
COORDINATOR SPECIALIZATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE
Specialist in Family and Community Medicine Universidad de la Sabana. Specialist in University Teaching Fundación Universitaria Navarra-UNINAVARRA. Specialist in Management and Auditing of Health Organizations Universidad Iberoamericana. Neurolinguistic Programming Instructor. ASEIA.
Dr. Martha Estella Niebles Coronell
Professor of Family Medicine Specialization Fundación Universitaria Navarra - UNINAVARRA. Specialist in Comprehensive Family Medicine - Juan N. Corpas University Foundation. Specialist in University Teaching - University Foundation of Navarra - UNINAVARRA.
Dr. Carlos Humberto Reyes Guio
Professor of Family Medicine Specialization Fundación Universitaria Navarra - UNINAVARRA. Specialist in Family and Community Medicine - Universidad de La Sabana. Diploma in University Teaching - Universidad de La Sabana.
Dr. María del Pilar Leal Vargas
Professor of Family Medicine Specialization Fundación Universitaria Navarra - UNINAVARRA. Specialist in Family Medicine - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Diploma in University Teaching - University Foundation UNINAVARRA.
Dr. Luis Carlos Quintero Malo
Medical Doctor with Specialization and Master in Bioethics. Diploma in Human Rights and Diploma in Medical Sexology.
Dr. Ingrid Carolina García Ayala
Professor of Family Medicine Fundación Universitaria Navarra-UNINAVARRA. Specialist in Family Medicine Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Specialist in Teaching for Higher Education; Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales- UDCA. Candidate Master in Clinical Pharmacology. University Foundation of Health Sciences- FUCS.
Dr. Jhonatan Andres Portes OrtizDr. Jhonatan Andres Portes Ortiz
Specialist in Family Medicine from Universidad El Bosque. Specialist in Epidemiology from Universidad Surcolombiana.
Dispositivos de asistencia para la movilidad – Recorrido sociocultural
El pasado 01 de noviembre de 2024, en el marco de la gran sesión creativa, se realizó un recorrido sociocultural de los dispositivos de asistencia para la movilidad, realizado por la residente de Medicina Familiar de primer año Gerly Vanessa Rincón Puentes. Se contó con la participación de diferentes personas que aceptaron vincularse a este importante evento, a través de videos realizados, previo consentimiento verbal; así mismo con la colaboración de una tienda de dispositivos médicos, que proporcionó diferentes elementos de ayuda para la marcha que permitieron una actividad práctica.
Los participantes fueron guiados en un recorrido sociocultural, donde se revisaron datos históricos de los dispositivos de asistencia para la marcha desde épocas prehistóricas, pasando por Egipto, Mesopotamia, Europa, entre otros; se destacan como símbolos religiosos, como accesorio en personajes de diferentes producciones cinematográficas y se resaltó la historia del bastón de Esculapio como símbolo de la medicina.
En un recorrido virtual, se visitó Pana Pana Montealegre en el departamento del Guainía, donde Jorge Hernán Pérez Medina a través de un significativo video, previo a, mostró la utilización de dispositivo de movilidad, su importancia, adaptación y además la convivencia armónica entre los valores evangélicos y la cultura indígena de la región.
Con cada dispositivo se realizó mención de sus componentes y el porcentaje de descarga corporal. También se describieron algunos de los tipos de marcha y se analizó las limitaciones que tiene cada una de las personas, desde la adquisición de estos dispositivos en el mercado, hasta en su uso.
Por último, se realizó revisión de la literatura a través de la mención de revisiones sistemáticas y estudios científicos. Se destacan estudios que asocian el ambiente en el que viven los individuos, adaptación a los aparatos de movilidad, creencias, vergüenza para su uso, conocimiento del personal de salud y educación en salud para el uso de estos.
Arte y medicina Familiar: Un evento artístico y de educación comunitaria
Con un lleno absoluto del teatro Pigoanza, de la ciudad de Neiva, se llevó a cabo el evento Arte y Medicina Familiar. Estudiantes de décimo, noveno y octavo semestre del pregrado de Medicina, junto con residentes del programa de Medicina Familiar hicieron realidad una extraordinaria puesta en escena el día 06 de noviembre de 2024.
A través de la danza, el teatro y otras manifestaciones artísticas, estudiantes y residentes lograron recrear de forma impactante los temas de la muerte, la sexualidad humana, vacunación, controles prenatales, cáncer de cérvix y lactancia materna. Se cumplieron a cabalidad los objetivos de la estrategia didáctica permitiendo el afianzamiento del conocimiento por parte de estudiantes y residentes, enseñanza a personal no médico (profesores de arte), creatividad, trabajo colaborativo y educación a la comunidad.
Este evento demuestra como de una forma diferente UNINAVARRA puede interactuar con la comunidad y los estudiantes, mejorar sus competencias blandas y al tiempo mejorar sus competencias académicas. Los asistentes manifestaron alegría al haber aprendido dentro de una actividad entretenida y llena de creatividad y profesionalismo.
Esta actividad ya hace parte de la huella inconfundible de UNINAVARRA como líder innovador en actividades académicas y comunitarias.
Última narrativa del año 2024
El día 06 de noviembre de 2024 se realizó la última narrativa del año, con el tema el suicidio un problema de salud pública. Este tópico fue tratado de manera transdisciplinar por parte de la doctora Martha Cecilia Abella (abogada) y el doctor Isidro Torres Castro (médico familiar), permitiendo un diálogo de saberes y narración de experiencias por parte de expositores y el público del evento.
Se destacaron diferentes posturas sobre el suicidio, desde filosóficas, religiosas y de las ciencias biológicas. También la legislación colombiana en torno a este tema y su repercusión dentro de los delitos que pueden ser cometidos por el personal de salud y su rol en el manejo de una persona que intenta suicidarse.
Se analizaron las estadísticas de diferentes periodos de tiempo a nivel mundial y Colombia sobre este evento y los resultados fatales o de discapacidad que los intentos de suicidio generan. También se abordó la problemática social y mental asociada con el suicidio. Esta narrativa permitió la exploración de diversas perspectivas sobre el derecho a la vida y el derecho a la muerte, así como también posiciones diferentes de residentes, estudiantes, profesores y personas de la comunidad con respecto a esta situación de salud pública.
La Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales en conjunto con el programa de Medicina Familiar de UNINAVARRA, recibieron una evaluación satisfactoria de las cuatro narrativas de la muerte y se proyecta continuar en el año 2025 con este tipo de actividades asociadas a otros temas importantes tanto para la academia como para la sociedad en general.
Why study the Specialization in
Family Medicine at UNINAVARRA?
You will receive medical training with a holistic and humanized approach: Family medicine focuses on providing comprehensive, person-centered care, considering both physical and psychosocial aspects. This holistic approach ensures that all of the patient's needs are addressed and their well-being is promoted as a whole.
We promote prevention and health promotion: Family medicine focuses on disease prevention and promoting healthy lifestyles. Family physicians play a key role in educating patients about the importance of prevention and designing intervention strategies to maintain long-term health.
We understand the importance of primary health care: Family medicine is fundamental to primary health care, being the gateway to the health care system for many people. Family physicians are experts in the early detection of disease, the management of chronic conditions and the monitoring of patients' general health.
At UNINAVARRA, we have advanced resources for training in family medicine. The High Complexity Simulated Hospital (HUSAC) gives students the opportunity to practice in a realistic environment with state-of-the-art technology. In addition, we have strategic alliances with important health institutions, such as the Medilaser Clinic, so that students can perform professional practices in a quality clinical environment.
If you are interested in providing comprehensive medical care and being an agent of change in people's health, the specialization in family medicine at UNINAVARRA will provide you with the necessary tools and knowledge to excel in this vitally important field.
