Medicine & Surgery by Universidad Anáhuac Cancun

International School of Medicine

Medicine & Surgery

INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS

Become a Positive-Action International Leader

Purpose of the program Designed for those who wish to study medicine and subsequently complete a medical specialty in the United States of America.

We form positive-action international Leaders For more than 50 years, Anáhuac University has prepared young professionals with integrity and values, people with an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit. Known for their commitment to others, Anáhuac graduates are agents of change, eager to transform society in a bold, positive way.

General Accreditations Accredited by the Federacion de Instituciones Mexicanas Particulares de Educación Superior [Federation of Private Mexican Institutions of Higher Education] for having achieved the highest level of educational quality.

International School of Medicine

Medicine & Surgery international degree is studied from a humanistic and scientific perspectives, focused on medical challenges, with high ethical sense and respect for human life. It’s a challenging six-year program that prepares you to start your professional journey in an international environment.

As a student at Anáhuac, you’ll benefit from: • A unique medical school curriculum that integrates global health into all six years and prepares you to be a proactive leader in the world of medicine. • An English-language program designed to prepare you for the USMLE® examination that enables you to meet residency application requirements for the United States. • An academic formation focused on ethics, humanism and professional integrity. During your career, you will develop moral skills and values that will shape you into a remarkable professional of medicine. • The opportunity to perform your clinical clerkships in several healthcare facilities throughout Mexico, United States and even Europe.

Approach • With the knowledge, soft skills and hard skills that will allow you to assume the development of your medical activity. • The student is able to lead health programs and services in various areas. • The student carries out health research projects and for an effective use of health technology. • The student is a staff trainer and an active leader in health promotion, disease prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.

Affiliations • Asociación Mexicana de Facultades y Escuelas de Medicina (Mexican Association of Faculties and Schools of Medicine) - AMFEM.

Accreditations

• Consejo Mexicano para la Acreditación de la Educación Médica A.C (Mexican Board for Accreditation of Medical Education) - COMAEM. • Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Facultades y Escuelas de Medicina (Latin American and Caribbean Association of Faculties and Schools of Medicine) ALAFEM. • Listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools. Sponsor’s Note from ECFMG.

The unique, outstanding international degree that prepares you for the USMLE® examination

An academic opportunity to become a medical specialist in the USA.* Program structure

A 6-year program of 90 courses structured in 12 semesters and 500 academic credits, through which you will receive the necessary preparation for a successful performance in the USMLE® examination.

Year one and two

During these first two years, you will start with medical sciences such as morphology, physiology, nosology and therapeutics given in English and Spanish. In this period, theory and practice come together in the lab, with highly-advanced technologies, that you will start using during the first semester.

Year three and four

In the third year, you’ll begin your clinical training divided in sixteen weeks of class each semester. You will also have access to workshops for the development of cultural skills, training you to practice medicine in an international environment. In the third and fourth years, you’ll begin your clinical training having the option to develop your clinical training in over 40 hospitals in Mexico through the clinical afilliation of the “Anáhuac Universities Network” with hospital centers all around the country, the US or some centers in Europe.

Fifth Year

This is the internship year. A part of your program that is a mandatory year, essential for the medical student to integrate and consolidate the knowledge you acquired during the previous years of study. You can enrrolled for your internship year in our affiliated hospitals in México, USA, or Europe. Some of our affiliated Hospitals for years three, four & five:

Hospital

City

Year

Hospital General de Cancún “Dr. Jesús Kumate Rodríguez”

Cancun, Quintana Roo

3, 4 & 5

Hospital General de Playa del Carmen

Cancun, Quintana Roo

3, 4 & 5

Hospital Amerimed

Cancun, Quintana Roo

3, 4 & 5

Hospital Galenia

Cancun, Quintana Roo

3, 4 & 5

Cozumel, Quintana Roo

Mexico City

Puerto Vallarta Jalisco

Hospital Costamed* Corporativo Hospital Satélite* Hospital La Joya* Jackson Memorial (Harrrington program for latinamerican students)

Miami, Florida

Hospital Universitario la Zarzuela

Madrid, Spain

Mexico City

Hospital Médica Sur*

*Subject to the Immigration Laws in force in the United States at the time of application. Apllicants for any residence program in the US must verified their Immigration elegibility.

How can you become a medical specialist in the US an get a medical license?

Sixth Year

The sixth year is “Social Service”. All students of any profession must perform social service in the terms of the mexican laws in order to obtain a degree. Corresponds to the final year of professional development of medical students in higher education institutions, assign to a urban or rural Primary Health Care Facility of the Mexican government, throughout the state of Quintana Roo. After concluding the 6-year program, an official certificate of studies legalized and apostilled by the Mexican Government is awarded to students who pass all courses of the program and USMLE® examination STEP 1 and STEP 2 CK & CS. Furthermore, the student will receive an Institutional official Title as a medical graduate that certifies completion of the program.

Semester I First year Semester II Basic Sciences

Semester III Second year Semester IV

What is the USMLE® Examination?

As an International medical student/graduate that pursues ECFMG Certification you must submit an Application for ECFMG Certification. The Application for ECFMG Certification consists of an on-line application and the Certification of Identification Form (Form 186) available through ECFMG’s Interactive Web Applications (IWA). The Application for ECFMG Certification requires that you confirm your identity, contact information, and graduation from or enrollment in a medical school that is listed in the World Directory as meeting ECFMG eligibility requirements. The examination requirements for ECFMG Certification include passing Step 1 and Step 2 CK & CS of the USMLE®. USMLE® STEP 1: assesses your understanding of and ability to apply important concepts of the basic sciences to the practice of medicine, with special emphasis on principles and mechanisms underlying health, disease, and modes of therapy. You will have to take USMLE® Step 1 at the end of your basic sciences formation in the second year (fourth semester). In order to advance to your clinical Sciences formation, it is mandatory that you take and pass this examination within six months after finishing basic formation. USMLE® STEP 2 CK & CS: component asseses your ability to apply medical knowledge, skills, and understanding of clinical science essential for the provision of patient care under supervision, with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. The Clinical Skills (CK & CS) examination is a separate component of STEP 2 that uses standardized patients to test your ability to gather information from patients, perform physical examinations, and communicate their findings to patients and colleagues. You will have to take USMLE® STEP 2 CK at the end of your clinical sciences formation in the fourth year (eighth semester). In order to advance to your fifthyear (Internship), it is mandatory that you take and pass this examination within six months after finishing clinical formation. USMLE® STEP 3: assesses your ability to apply medical knowledge and understanding of biomedical and clinical science essential for the unsupervised practice of medicine, with emphasis on patient management in ambulatory settings. The USMLE® program recommends that, for STEP 3 eligibility, you should have completed, or be near completion of, at least one postgraduate training year in an accredited US graduate medical education program that meets state board licensing requirements. Is the final examination in the USMLE sequence leading to a license to practice medicine in the United States without supervision.

Clinical Sciences

USMLE Step 1

Semestre V

Third year

Semestre VI

Semestre Vll

Semestre VIll

Fourth year

USMLE Step 2 CK & CS

Internship

Fifth year

Social Service

Sixth year

"Title & Degree" + USMLE¨ STEP 1 & STEP 2 CK & CS = ECFMG Certfiication Apply to ACGME certified Residency program Conclude or near to conclude at least 1 year of a residence program +USMLE¨ STEP 3 = License in the US

Bilingual Learning to practice medicine in both English and Spanish. You will be taking intensive courses or summer courses. Being bilingual and culturally aware will make you a physician with a much more international approach, valuable in the eyes of clinical administrators around the globe.

Requirements of Admission Pass the pre-medical course. - B2 level-B2 level (upper intermediate or advanced) of English. - B2 level (upper intermediate or advanced) of Spanish.

Admission process • We have a rolling admission process, which

means we review applications and enroll students year-round. This process takes no longer than 10 days. • We offer a pre-medical course to take our students into the world of medicine, serving as a preview of the journey they will begin. • We also give you the opportunity to begin medical school twice a year, in January or August. • The Admissions Committee reserves

the right to request additional information from the applicant and decline admission at any stage of the process.

Pre-medical course: • This course facilitates the student’s

acquisition of optimal competencies for study prior to initiate the International Medicine & Surgery Program. • Is a five-week (132 hours) online-course offered in english, twice a year in February and October.

Contents of the pre-medical course: • • • • • • • •

Principles of anatomy. Principles of physiology for medicine. Basic biology for medicine. Basic chemistry for medicine. Mathematics applied to medicine. Medical etymologies. Study techniques. Anahuac doctor.

MD International Program

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12

Anatomy

Clinical anatomy

Clinical history

Biophysics

Cell physiology General Physiology

Cell biology

Histology

10c

Human ecology

Bioéthics

Interdisciplinary & Bioethical Analysis of Clinical Medicine I

Interdisciplinary & Bioethical Analysis of Clinical Medicine II

Interdisciplinary & Bioethical Analysis of Clinical Medicine III

Interdisciplinary & Bioethical Analysis of Clinical Medicine IV

Biological basis of disease

Clinical sciences I

Clinical sciences II

Clinical sciences III

Clinical sciences IV

24c

Surgical therapeutics

Biology of cancer

Quality of healthcare

Health management

Endonutrition

Biochemistry

Molecular biology

Genomics & proteomics

Pharmacological therapeutics

Hematology

Geriatrics

Endocrinology Practicum III: m-health

Practicum I: Community practice

Health policy

Practicum II: History & Primary health philosophy of attention medicine

Physician-pa- Developmental Evidence-batient communi- biology sed health cation information

12c

Epidemiology and public health

Methods for health research

Clinical methods in general medicine

Clinical pathology

Nephrology

Infectology

Interdisciplinary dialogues in health sciences

9c Scientific Reading & writing

Immunology

Surgical pathology

Responsibility Innovation & & sustainability entrepeneurship

Elective Professional I

Elective Elective Elective Professional II Professional III Professional IV

Practical medical semiology

Step 1

Step 1 (2)

Step 1 (3)

Step 1 exam

Step 2 (1)

Step 2 (2)

Step 2 (3)

Step 2 exam

ATLS, Advanced trauma life support

Heartsaver

Team

BLS BASIC Life Support

PHTLS

History of universities

Human Being & sense of life

Ethics

Human being and trascendence

Classic & Leadership contemporary humanism

Workshop or elective activity I

Workshop or elective activity III

Free elective course I

Workshop or elective activity II 3c

Step CK / CS / Step CK / CS / Step 3 Step 3

NBME® IFOM-CSE

NBME® IFOM-BSE

Free elective course I

40c

Rheumatology

Biostatistics

Internship

ETLS

ACLS

Professional Block Anáhuac Block

Elective Block International Reanimation Competences (American Heart, NAEMT y American College of Surgeons).

Social Service

Why study at Aná Cancun Universit It is the International Campus of the Anáhuac Network. + than 40 different nationalities represented on campus. One of the 3 best private universities in Mexico. Cancun is the #1 tourism destination in Latin America. 1st place nationally in creation of jobs.

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+ than 25 millon visitors per year. The airport with the largest flow of national and international passengers. #1 in reception of cruise ships worldwide. International-caliber cultural and sports events.

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Anáhuac Network

+90,000 Graduates

33,500 Enroll students

+550

International exchange opportunities

23%

of the CEO’s of companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange are Anáhuac graduates. Anáhuac is in the top

of the Best Universities in the World.

Anáhuac Leadership Programs Cutting-edge programs for the development of leaders, offering you a diploma course which includes creating connections and contacts with professionals, national and international professional development seminars, workshops, conferences, specialized topics and multidisciplinary integration. We offer nine different profiles: • • • • • • • •

ACCION: Sports Leadership Program ALPHA: Leadership Programs in Medicine CIMA: University Student Leadership Program CREA: Leadership Program in Communication CULMEN: Leadership Program in Art and Culture GENERA: Corporate Leadership Program IMPULSA: Social Commitment Leadership Program SINERGIA: Public Administration Leadership Program

Anáhuac Excellence and Human Values Programs • VÉRTICE: Program of excellence • Gente Nueva: Program of human values

The Best University Life Experience

Sports We offer you more than 20 areas of study as well as elective subjects that enable students to develop their skills in first-class sports facilities. Football, soccer, tennis, basketball, volleyball, archery, golf, diving, paddle-boarding, pilates, sport climbing, crossfit, taekwondo, entertainment team, jiu jitsu, among others.

Art and Culture A wide variety of international-caliber cultural and artistic events and workshops with a focus on integral development. Workshops on salsa, painting, theater, hip hop, and groups representing dance and music.

Social Commitment Offering more than 100 volunteer projects within the Anáhuac Universities Network, including social action brigades, through the ASUA (Anáhuac University Social Action).

Student Relations The link between the University and the students to promote student life activities and work on projects of mutual interest to both.

University Ministry Spiritual ministry through our Catholic identity and promotion of spiritual development and volunteer programs.

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