RESEARCH

Specialization in Pathology

ABOUT THE

Program

Universidad Industrial de Santander offers this program of surgical medical specialization, given the importance of Pathology as a branch of medicine in the context of care, scientific and legal conceiving it as an integral specialty due to the different fields of knowledge that constitute it, which make it different from any other surgical medical specialty. In addition, the UIS is the only institution of higher education of Colombian northeastern with the infrastructure and human resources that, an interinstitutional agreement with the Hospital Universitario de Santander, make it feasible for its development and execution in the region. The relevance of the program is based on the demand for the services of the pathologist by the different institutions and companies that provide health, judicial, and university not only from the area of influence but from the rest of the country and even outside Colombia.

Qualified registration: Resolution of the Ministry of National Education (MEN) No. 004639 dated March 24, 2023.

SNIES 713: In-Person | Bucaramanga

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DEGREE:

Pathology Specialist

DURATION:

3 levels

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In-person/In Spanish

LOCATION:

UIS Health Campus

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APPLICANT

Profile

The graduate applicant of the specialization in Pathology is a graduate doctor, who will dedicate the three years of the program, full time to this activity. It should be noted that it offers a high capacity to study and academic level coupled with the personal motivation towards understanding the basic sciences and their relationship to the disease processes, physiological and anatomical changes that these cause.

In addition, your attitude of service and inclination towards research will allow you to ask research questions aimed at solving the health problems of the population.

GRADUATE

Profile

Specialist physician of high academic level characterized by his ability to observe, analyze and synthesize, qualities that allow him to study the causes, mechanism, natural evolution of diseases, and morphological changes in the cells, tissues, organs, and systems involved in them. Its purpose is to diagnose diseases based on the study of extended cytological, biopsies, surgical specimens, scientific autopsies, and legal medical autopsies.

They will develop his field of action in Private Pathology Laboratories and State Social Enterprises, whose roles will be those of diagnostic support, promoter in health prevention, university teacher, medical consultant, and justice advisor, as well as a member of multidisciplinary teams with which they will develop research aimed at finding solutions to health problems that most often affect the Colombian community and the world.