Vision
To be a benchmark in the formation of professionals with the highest degree of excellence to take care of the health and well-being of the community, and an innovative education and research institution focused on serving society.
Mission
To be an academic community, centered on respect for each and all human beings and their diversity and freedom, and a community that forms ethical professionals and generates scientific knowledge at the service of health care and well-being.
Values
Excellence
We seek daily improvement, and learnings from our limitations and errors, to achieve outstanding results that may be valuable to our community and society.
Integrity
We give priority to justice, ethics, and consistency, under any circumstance, following righteous principles and integrity-oriented motivation.
Service
We promote an attitude of care for others and offer our availability, capabilities, time, and resources that contribute to the well-being and development of persons.
Respect
We appreciate and recognize the qualities, interests, rights, and beliefs of all human beings.
Fundamental Declaration
- We want to contribute to the scientific and professional development of our society. We understand this task as a commitment to be part of the development of the country, one that faces the ongoing challenge to provide timely access to high-quality care. To this end, our School aims at contributing by training professionals with a high degree of academic excellence and with a distinctive spirit of service.
- We conceive education as the process of intellectual, emotional, and social development of students. We seek to form autonomous and critical persons, capable of identifying complex problems and competent enough to solve them working in multidisciplinary teams.
- We consider our professors are models for students, experts in the subjects they impart, and capable of developing the ability to think about the mentioned subjects.
- The Faculty is a venue that transmits knowledge grounded on basic and applied research. Therefore, our students will participate in research projects from early in their training.
- We conceive our graduates as professionals with solid scientific knowledge and robust clinical skills, who think they are publicly accountable and focused on serving patients they respect in their entire human dimension.
- The School of Medicine has a humanistic and pluralistic vision based on respect for the dignity of human persons. We aspire, therefore, to give students ethical competencies that abide by this vision and a solid formation in values such as respect for life and freedom.
- We seek to train professionals capable of undertaking projects and conceiving novel ways to face situations in scientific and daily environments, oriented to patient´s well-being and the development of the institutions and the communities in which they interact.
- We responsibly assume the commitment to train students consistently, as per the above-mentioned principles, so our graduates may reflect this vision in their professional work.
- The School contributes to the scientific and professional development of our society. We understand this task as a contribution to the development of the country, whose permanent challenge is to establish timely access to quality health for all. To this end, the Faculty wishes to participate by training professionals with a high degree of academic excellence and a distinctive spirit of service.
- The Faculty conceives education as the process of intellectual, emotional, and social development of students. We aspire to form autonomous and critical persons, capable of identifying complex problems and competent to solve them working in multidisciplinary teams.
- The Faculty is a venue that generates and conveys knowledge grounded on basic and applied research. Therefore, our students will participate in research projects early in their training.
- The Faculty aspires to train professionals capable of undertaking projects and imagining novel ways of facing situations, both in scientific and daily environments. These professionals focus on assisting their patients and the development of the institutions and communities they serve.
- The Faculty considers our professors as models for students to follow and experts in the subjects and able to develop thinking capabilities related to their subject.
- The Faculty conceives its graduates as professionals who have solid scientific knowledge, robust clinical skills, and a sense of public accountability. They focus on serving patients and appreciate their entire human dimension.
