Medicine

UNINAVARRA's Medicine Program is a face-to-face program, with emphasis on the formation of the physician with orientation in Primary Health Care and the biopsychosocial model, with a daytime schedule that leads to the degree of Physician.

UNINAVARRA's Medicine program is characterized by the following aspects:

• A medical program that is socially oriented towards the development of human, social and community training competencies.
• A medicine program that responds to a primary health care model -APS-regional, at all levels of care, where the groups and risk factors become a fundamental strategy to articulate preventive medicine in the framework of a Health Plan for the Southern Colombian region.
• A medical program that faces the desire to consolidate a model of care at all levels (primary, secondary and tertiary prevention), and identifies risk groups and factors, allowing the possibility of increasing the "endowment of qualified and trained human resources" to meet the demands with intervention strategies at the community level and interdisciplinary professional practice of the health team that works "with and for the community.
• An educational offer of a new medical program derived from the epidemiological diagnoses of the region and that orients its actions through self-learning and innovative criticism necessary to modify the health conditions of the population of the region and the country.
• Entrepreneurship: The concept of entrepreneurship is of the utmost importance not only in economic and development policies, but also because it has become a new trend in the academic world and more specifically in higher education. Many European HEIs have directed their policies focused on its promotion and development, with special emphasis on education and its role in this area (Green Paper on Entrepreneurship in Europe (2003).

Applicant Profile

General admission profile and admission requirements:

Admission to UNINAVARRA is free and voluntary by enrollment processes of applicants according to their vocation. Admission to UNINAVARRA is based on three profiles:

• Personal profile where personality traits of the applicants are evaluated to verify affinity with the entrance profile of each program.
• Intellectual profile where the degree of knowledge is evaluated and based on the State Aptitude and Knowledge Tests of the Colombian Institute for the Promotion of Higher Education ICFES, minimum admission scores will be established for each program.
• Attitudinal profile determined in interview processes in which the Program Director will determine the affinity between the student and the formative requirements of the program. In the case of Health Sciences, psychometric personality tests will be specifically applied to evaluate the psychological profile from a clinical perspective in order to ensure the affinity and stability of this profile in each student with the career to be pursued.

Professional profile

The physician graduated from the NAVARRA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is a health professional with comprehensive training who understands the biopsychosocial model, committed to his or her community and who develops the following potentialities:

• Continuous self-training.
• Patient, family and community communication with the health care team.
• Intervention strategies at the community level to promote healthy lifestyles, encouraging self-care and the formation of social support networks.
• The interdisciplinary professional practice of the health team working with and for the community.
• Leader in the formulation of innovative policies and strategies based on research processes, which will be conceived with a managerial vision that integrates the technical-administrative aspects with the elements of quality, humanization and bioethics.

Occupational profile

• Promote in their community solutions in accordance with the health problems and the factors that generate them, stimulating schemes corresponding to their own reality.
• To treat the human being taking into account the biopsychosocial aspects that will determine his or her health situation.
• Treat patients as individuals, establishing a humane and ethical relationship with them.
• Propose alternatives and participate in the solution of social problems that determine the health of the community.
• Promote adequate levels of health.
• Diagnose, treat, control and rehabilitate through the medical act, the pathology to be treated at the level at which it acts, according to the three levels of care.
• Develop prevention and health promotion programs.
• To detect psychobiological problems at personal, family and community levels, offering integral treatments.
• Develop activities aimed at improving environmental sanitation in general.
• Carry out the referral of patients whose condition requires more complex treatments or the use of technological resources that are lacking in their level of work.
• Attend to emergencies in accordance with the functions of their respective level and the resources available to them.
• Perform medico-legal activities of the respective level of medical care.
• Participate in the development of surgical interventions with the corresponding specialist.
• Participate in epidemiological, clinical, administrative and educational research projects.
• To take care of the ethical aspects of research, especially when people are involved.

Job Profile

The physician graduated from the NAVARRA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION will be able to work in the following occupational scenarios:

Assistance: as a general practitioner in health care institutions, nursing homes, work centers, among others, for the integral health care of individuals, families and communities.

Management: as promoter and executor of processes related to health policies within the framework of the general social security health system.

Teacher: as a teacher or supervisor of educational processes related to their professional practice.

Investigativeas a participant in research projects in Health Sciences. At the Navarra University Foundation-UNINAVARRA, research creation is promoted from the beginning of training.

Meet the research group of the Medicine program.

Internship Agreements

• Clínica Medilaser headquarters in Neiva and Florencia.
• Hernando Moncaleano Perdomo University Hospital.
• Carmen Emilia Ospina ESE.
• EMCOSALUD Clinic.