SMHS Multicenter Medical Specialties Program

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About the programs

The academic-care programs are strengthened as of March 1, 2006, with the formation of the Multicenter Medical Specialties Program, integrated by the TecSalud School of Medicine and Health Sciences in conjunction with the Ministry of Health of the State of Nuevo Leon.

All our teachers are medical specialists who continuously receive training in teaching and teach their professional specialty in both theory and practice. They are committed and actively involved in the resident's learning.

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Message from the Associate Director

Medical Specialties

Goal

Medical Specialties

Competitive advantages

Selection Process

Academic Offer

Clinical fields

Contact

Call for applications 2022

Medical Specialties

Message from the Associate Director

The Clinical Postgraduate Division of the TecSalud School of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Tecnológico de Monterrey gives you the warmest welcome to this virtual space. We currently have 17 Direct and Indirect Entry Programs.

Our programs expose the resident to the environments of professional practice in private and public medicine, in order to have a comprehensive preparation. Our goal is to establish an integrated and highly competitive educational offer to train human resources for health, structured under the framework of evidence-based medicine. In addition to promoting students as agents of change for the transformation of society.

As of March 2006, we achieved the integration of the Tecnológico de Monterrey and the Ministry of Health, allowing the creation of the first academic hospital - private university model with hospitals or public clinics, dubbed the "Multicenter Medical Specialties Program ", with a commitment to training human resources for health. Facilitating the resident doctor’s exposure to great breadth and depth of pathology.

Additionally, they involve the resident directly with various socioeconomic and psychological aspects of the community, in addition to facilitating learning of the administrative and research aspects in various scenarios of medical care.

If you need more information, I invite you to contact us by phone or by email, we will be happy to answer your questions, comments and/or suggestions about our processes and procedures.

Dr. Antonio Dávila Rivas
Associate Director of the Clinical Postgraduate Division
antonio.davila.rivas@tec.mx

Lic. Cecilia Ayala Armendariz
Director´s Assistant
Tel: +52 (81) 8888-0828
cecyayala@tec.mx

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Goal

To establish an integrated and highly competitive educational offer in the training of human resources for health, structured under the framework of evidence-based medicine, by acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. Merge the Academic - Healthcare processes of the various hospitals and the TecSalud School of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, to achieve:

High Competitivity
Relevant clinical research
Best medical practices.
Benefit for patients and Society.

The Multicenter Medical Specialties Program facilitates exposure of the resident doctor to a great variety of pathologies, with great breadth and depth. Furthermore, it involves the resident directly with various socio-economic and psychological aspects of the community. In addition, it facilitates learning the administrative and research aspects of the diverse scenarios of healthcare. Our training, offered in a TUTORIAL manner, allows the resident to acquire the skills of the specialty within a framework of ethical practice in public and private medicine.

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Competitive advantages

Clinical Fields. The heterogeneity in clinical fields (private and public) facilitates the exposure of the physician-in-training, to a diversity of pathologies, both in breadth and depth, in the different socioeconomic and psychological environments of the patients.
Research. Students receive formal courses and tutorials for the preparation and development of research protocols, seeking that they result in a publication and presentations in national and international conferences of their specialty.
Education in Health Sciences. Through sessions and workshops, the physician-in-training reflects, assimilates concepts, and puts into practice various techniques to educate patients, students, and colleagues.
Ethics of the Health Professional. Through sessions, workshops, and reading reflections on Bioethics, the student develops skills, attitudes, and values to apply in an ethical professional practice, in hospital and outpatient settings.
Quality of Clinical Care and Patient Safety. The resident can propose and operate models for the evaluation and improvement of clinical care through processes.
Internationalization. Student mobility is relevant in all our programs. It is our priority to promote, facilitate and manage international experiences, to consolidate the competitiveness and global vision of our residents.
Our Programs are in a constant process of re-accreditation by the PNPC (National Program for Quality Graduate programs).
Teaching Staff. Our professors are medical specialists who have valid credentials, receive continuous training in teaching and in the discipline of their specialty, promote and facilitate clinical learning of residents at the patient’s bedside, they are committed teachers and actively involved in training the specialist-in-training.
Teacher Training. Through the Teaching Skills Development Program (PDHD-Clinical), the teachers reflect and are trained to constantly improve their work as teachers.

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Selection Process

Student selection is carried out jointly with professors from each program that participates from each of the hospitals and is based on the selection process of the Tecnológico de Monterrey and the guidelines established by each of the medical specialty programs.

Requirements:

Copy of the diploma and professional license of Medical Doctor.
General average equal to or greater than 80/100 in a professional degree.
Copy of the certificate of professional studies.
Finished Social Service.
Proof of selection in the National Examination for Medical Residency Applicants (ENARM)
Passing grade in the Postgraduate Studies Admission Test (PAEP).
Institutional TOEFL result is equal to or greater than 550 points (Outside the ITESM it can be TOEFL IBT with a result equal to or greater than 79 points).
Psychometric test.
Interview with professors of the academic faculty of the specialty.
Letter of Motives or Intent.
Copy of ACLS and/or PALS credential valid as of March of the year of admission, depending on the specialty:
- ACLS: Anesthesiology, General Surgery, Quality of Clinical Care, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Radiology and Imaging, Geriatrics, Pathological Anatomy, Critical Care Medicine, Urology, Cardiology, and Neurology.
- PALS: Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Neurology.
If the professional degree was obtained abroad, the degree must be validated as equivalent.
Foreign doctors whose mother tongue is not Spanish must demonstrate mastery of the latter. As well as submitting an original copy of the apostilled and/or authenticated professional certificate, professional diploma, and birth certificate.

Requirements for Indirect Entry Specialties

In addition to the internal selection process of the Program, the following is required:

Cardiology: Having completed 2 years in the Internal Medicine Specialty.
Critical Care Medicine: Having a degree of Specialist in Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, or Emergency Medicine.
Neonatology: Having a Specialty in Pediatrics.
Clinical Neurology: Having completed 2 years in the Internal Medicine Specialty.
Pediatric Neurology: Have a Specialty in Pediatrics.
Urology: Having completed 1 year of the General Surgery Specialty.

For indirect entry to Medical Specialties that require a Degree, applicants who are in their final year may provisionally submit a certificate that validates this information, which also includes their qualifications to date.

IMPORTANT: In case of being selected, a letter of proof must be submitted that validates the finalization of the years studied and approved or the Diploma in process, a maximum of two weeks before starting the program.

Scholarships

The Resident Physician who is accepted into our program receives two scholarships throughout the residency: the first one for monthly support and the second 100% academic grant, provided by the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Foreign doctors who are accepted will not be eligible for a support grant and will have a 50% academic grant, so the costs of lodging and transportation are paid by the student.

Entry date: Starts annually on March 1

Documents and forms for the application process: