Emergency Medicine

Introduction

The Specialty in Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine Residency) is part of the Medical Specialties Program offered by the Mexicali School of Medicine. It is aimed at General Physicians who have an interest in academic improvement and professional specialization in Emergency Medicine.

Objetive

Train medical specialists in Emergency Medicine who perform their profession and are competent in solving medical problems of their discipline individually and in their environment by acquiring knowledge, abilities, skills and attitudes that allow them to develop their main functions: medical care, research in their field and teaching while remaining humanistic and respectful of the regulations.

Program Structure

The Specialty in Emergency Medicine lasts six semesters. The academic course load is composed of subjects which contents provide the student with a conceptual, methodological and instrumental base as well as integration for the optimal development of the specialty. Clinical rotations provide the student with the required competence in becoming a specialized physician in the area.

Graduate Profile

• Able to perform quality and comprehensive care for the emergency patients, from approaching the patient at their arrival at the emergency unit, to their transfer to other areas for further treatment, always considering the safety and integrity of the person.


• Able to identify potentially solvable problems using applied clinical or basic research as a valid and reliable basis for decision-making in benefit of the patient. Such skills are aimed at improving their professional practice and give them the ability to publish the results, within existing ethical and regulatory frameworks.


• Able to identify and apply the most convenient learning methods, techniques and strategies to continue their training in caring of patients in critical condition that require emergency assistance.


• Ability for teamwork and effective communication with the patient and their work environment.

Curriculum

Structured in 6-month cycles, with subjects whose contents meet the standards established by the university itself and health institutions requirements.

• Semesters I-II: Select Topics of Basic Sciences Applied to Emergency Medicine, Medical Emergency Care I-II, Research and Teaching Seminar I-II, Optional I-II, Select Topics in Emergency Medicine I


• Semesters III-IV: Select Topics in Emergency Medicine II-III, Medical Emergency Care III-IV, Research and Teaching Seminar III-IV, Optional III-IV.


• Semesters V-VI: Thesis Seminar, Medical Emergency Care V, Professional Social Service.


• Optional subjects can be taken in any semester and include: Select Topics in Critical Medicine and Intensive Therapy, Select Topics in Cardiology and Interventionism, Select Topics in Neurology and Neurosurgery, Select Topics in Medical Emergencies-Mexican Red Cross System, Select Topics of Emergency Medicine IV-V.

Application Requirements

• Turn in all the documentation listed in the following link: (To be published).


• Medical and psychometric examination.


• Interview with the associate professor of the Emergency Medicine academic course.


• Comply with the enrollment requirements set by UABC Graduate and Research Coordination and Student Services and School Management Coordination.

Selection Process

• The applicant for the Emergency Medicine Specialty must present the ENARM test at the location designated by the Inter-institutional Commission for Human Resources Training and Health Research (CIFRHS), once the requirements set out in the call are met.


• Applicants will enter the process of internal selection in hospitals, through the announcement issued by the Mexicali School of Medicine in coordination with health institutions (ISESALUD and IMSS). This call is published on an annual basis on the Mexicali School of Medicine and ISESALUD websites.


• Those selected by the ENARM test and the hospitals call are required to hand in the required documentation in person at the Mexicali School of Medicine and at the Health Institution hospital. Interviews, medical and psychometric tests will be conducted there to determine the selected candidates for the specialty. Consult all required documentation in the following link: (To be published).


• The scholarship for the selected students will be in charge of the hospitals of the corresponding Health Institution.


• There are student exchange support programs for academic programs recognized in the CONACyT National Postgraduate Registry available through the corresponding invitations issued on the CONACyT website.

Graduate Requirements

• Having successfully completed the credits indicated by the curriculum for the specialty in Emergency Medicine.


• Present a final project to obtain the Specialty Diploma.


• Take the final exam of the specialty.


• Clearance Certificate stating no outstanding loans or fines on bibliographic material from the library of the Mexicali School of Medicine and the Central Library of the UABC.


• Clearance certificate form the university's Treasury.

Process for Obtaining The Diploma

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