| 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: +57 318 071 5286 +57 317 514 1730 |
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 / Alien Registration Card or passport).
4. If you are not Colombian you must bring your student or resident visa.
5. Resume with supports, including undergraduate transcripts incorporating internship (medical).
6. Accredit a university degree in one of the programs of the health area, in a Colombian Higher Education Institution 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.
7. Mandatory Social Service Resolution
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 resume with supporting documents, including undergraduate transcripts incorporating the internship (medical).
2. Knowledge test with the characteristics determined by the institution.
3. Demonstrate proficiency in reading comprehension in English at the independent or intermediate level, i.e. level B1, through the mechanism established by the institution in the call for the admission process.
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.
Jorge Augusto Moncaleano Saenz
Profesor Especialización Medicina Familiar Fundación Universitaria Navarra – UNINAVARRA. Médico Especialista en Medicina Familiar – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
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 Ortiz
Specialist in Family Medicine from Universidad El Bosque. Specialist in Epidemiology from Universidad Surcolombiana.
Dr. Cristina Isabel Domínguez Charris
Teacher of the Specialization in Family Medicine - Fundación Universitaria Navarra
Medical Doctor - Universidad Metropolitana
Specialist in Family Medicine - Universidad El Bosque
Diploma in University Teaching
Alianza de Servicio Comunitario: Medicina Familiar UNINAVARRA y la Fuerza
Aeroespacial de Colombia
El 8 de noviembre de 2025, la Especialización en Medicina Familiar de UNINAVARRA reafirmó su compromiso social y humano al participar en una brigada de salud organizada por la Fuerza Aeroespacial Colombiana, sede Tolemaida, en el municipio de Villa Rica, Tolima. Esta alianza entre la academia y las fuerzas militares simboliza la unión entre el conocimiento científico y el servicio a las comunidades más necesitadas del país.
Cinco representantes del programa —dos docentes y tres residentes— llevaron el sello de la Medicina Familiar a una jornada que combinó logística, vocación y entrega. El desplazamiento incluyó traslado terrestre desde Neiva hasta Melgar, vuelo en helicóptero hacia Villa Rica y regreso por vía terrestre, una experiencia que trascendió lo académico para convertirse en una vivencia de compromiso social. Durante la jornada se atendieron 150 pacientes, quienes expresaron su agradecimiento y reconocimiento por la atención humanizada y la calidad del acompañamiento recibido.
Este encuentro solidario no solo fortaleció los lazos entre UNINAVARRA y la Fuerza Aeroespacial de Colombia, sino que también destacó el papel transformador de la Medicina Familiar en el territorio. Cada consulta, cada gesto y cada palabra de orientación reflejaron la esencia de una academia que forma profesionales con visión integral, vocación de servicio y compromiso con el bienestar de las comunidades y las instituciones que engrandecen nuestra nación.
Día de los Mejores: Medicina Familiar resplandece con merecidos galardones
El 7 de noviembre de 2025, UNINAVARRA celebró con orgullo el Día de los Mejores, un evento que reconoce la excelencia académica y el compromiso social de su comunidad universitaria. En esta ocasión, la Especialización en Medicina Familiar fue protagonista, al recibir dos importantes reconocimientos otorgados al doctor Isidro Torres, coordinador del programa, quien fue distinguido como Mejor Docente de la Especialidad y por su destacada labor en Proyección Social.
Estos galardones reflejan el trabajo constante y apasionado del equipo académico de Medicina Familiar, cuya misión va más allá de la formación médica: busca transformar vidas a través de la educación, la investigación y la intervención comunitaria. Las iniciativas lideradas por el doctor Torres y sus residentes han dejado huella en comunidades del Huila y el Tolima, consolidando a UNINAVARRA como una institución comprometida con la salud integral y el desarrollo social.
Este reconocimiento no solo exalta los logros individuales, sino que reafirma el compromiso de la especialización con la excelencia académica, la humanización del cuidado y el impacto social. La Medicina Familiar continúa posicionándose como un pilar fundamental en la formación de profesionales que inspiran, enseñan y sirven con propósito, proyectando el nombre de UNINAVARRA con orgullo dentro y fuera de las aulas.
Residentes y docentes de la especialización de Medicina Familiar publican en revista brasilera de ginecología y obstetricia
El Dr. Jhonatan Andrés Portes, docente del programa de Medicina Familiar, y la residente de tercer semestre Leydi Del Carmen Hernández Coronado lograron la publicación de una carta al editor en la Revista Brasileña de Ginecología y Obstetricia, volumen 47 del año 2025. El artículo, titulado “Comment on: Efficacy, safety, and acceptability of misoprostol in the management of incomplete abortion: a systematic review and meta-analysis”, fue el resultado de un riguroso proceso de análisis crítico y revisión científica que culminó con su aceptación por parte de un comité editorial internacional.
En su publicación, los autores identifican discrepancias entre los datos y conclusiones presentados en una revisión sistemática sobre la eficacia y seguridad del misoprostol en el manejo del aborto incompleto. A través de su análisis, los investigadores aportan una reflexión académica que promueve la transparencia, la precisión en la interpretación de la evidencia científica y el fortalecimiento del pensamiento crítico en la práctica clínica. Este tipo de intervenciones editoriales son esenciales para garantizar la calidad de la investigación médica y la toma de decisiones basadas en evidencia.
Este logro representa un importante aporte para el programa de Medicina Familiar, al visibilizar la participación activa de sus docentes y residentes en la comunidad científica internacional. Además, refuerza el compromiso institucional con la investigación, la producción académica y la formación de profesionales críticos y comprometidos con la salud pública. La publicación puede consultarse en el siguiente enlace: https://doi.org/10.61622/rbgo/2025rbgo88
Exponentes Magistrales en el Congreso Internacional — Tres Ponencias sobre el Dolor
En el marco del VIII Congreso Internacional WCMS realizado los días 5, 6 y 7 de noviembre de 2025, los docentes del programa de Especialización en Medicina Familiar de UNINAVARRA se destacaron con tres ponencias magistrales que cautivaron a los asistentes y ampliaron la comprensión del dolor como fenómeno biológico, psicológico y social.
Los doctores Isidro Torres, Cristina Domínguez y Jhonatan Portes ofrecieron un recorrido académico que abordó el dolor desde su fisiopatología y neurobiología, pasando por la titulación racional de opioides, hasta llegar al manejo integral del dolor en pacientes oncológicos. Cada ponencia integró una visión multidimensional y humanista, resaltando cómo la Medicina Familiar, desde la Atención Primaria en Salud, ofrece un abordaje centrado en la persona, en sus dimensiones física, emocional, social y espiritual.
Estas intervenciones no sólo reafirmaron la relevancia científica del enfoque familiar en el tratamiento del dolor, sino que también demostraron que la Medicina Familiar es ciencia, arte y humanidad, capaz de transformar la experiencia del paciente y de aportar una mirada interdisciplinaria a uno de los retos más complejos y universales de la medicina contemporánea.
UNINAVARRA y su impacto social: Una realidad mediada por la especialización en Medicina Familiar
El pasado 29 de octubre de 2025, el doctor Isidro Torres, junto con internos, residentes y el equipo de Proyección Social de UNINAVARRA, lideraron una inspiradora jornada de educación en sexualidad en la Institución Educativa Técnico IPC Andrés Rosas, en la ciudad de Neiva, Huila. Este espacio formativo hizo parte de las acciones de extensión social del programa de Medicina Familiar, reafirmando el compromiso de la universidad con la salud integral y la formación ciudadana desde etapas tempranas.
Durante la jornada, los estudiantes de noveno grado participaron activamente en conversaciones abiertas sobre temas relacionados con la sexualidad, el autocuidado y la toma de decisiones responsables. A través de dinámicas, preguntas y el desmontaje de mitos, los jóvenes expresaron sus inquietudes y compartieron experiencias propias en un entorno de respeto y confianza.
Este tipo de intervenciones, guiadas por el enfoque humanista y comunitario de la Medicina Familiar, evidencian el impacto positivo de UNINAVARRA en la promoción de la salud y la educación preventiva. La alianza entre la academia y la comunidad fortalece la construcción de una sociedad más informada, empática y saludable, donde la educación en salud se convierte en una herramienta de transformación social.
UNINAVARRA facing the world
We have an Internationalization Policy "UNINAVARRA FACING THE WORLD"which aims to offer the academic community a bridge between the local environment and the globalized world. Through its lines of action, it provides opportunities for interaction with the national and international environment in classroom and online mode, where you can live training experiences in other contexts, interact with people from different cultures, learn about the global dynamics and its social, cultural, economic, environmental changes, among others; enhance your career with national and international projection and strengthen your training as a global professional and citizen of the world.
Lines of action and opportunities:
- International Cooperation Management: Agreements, alliances, joint projects and networking with more than 200 institutions from different countries around the world such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Spain, United States, Italy, Mexico, Peru, among others.
- Academic Mobility Management: Student exchange opportunities during one or two academic periods throughout the development of the student's academic program in different types of mobility such as: academic exchange (taking subjects), short course, internship, practicum, medical rotation, mission, research stay, observership and degree modalities. Teaching mobility as national and foreign visiting professors in your classroom.
- Multiculturalism and Multilingualism Management: Activities that contribute to the development of intercultural competencies and communicative competence in a foreign language, mainly English as a universal language.
- Management of the Internationalization of the Curriculum: Joint classes with other institutions through mirror class methodology or COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning).
More information: https://uninavarra.edu.co/internacionalizacion/
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 family medicine training. 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, 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.
