A firm commitment to educational quality: this is how the curricular reforms of the undergraduate programs at the Faculty of Health are progressing

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During the last four years, the Schools and Departments of the Faculty of Health of the Universidad Industrial de Santander have led an unprecedented process of academic transformation. These are the curricular reforms of the undergraduate programs, a collective effort that has involved the constant dedication of professors, curricular committees and management teams, who have […]

Student of Specialization in Internal Medicine participated in the XIV International Symposium of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

Graduate student

With the study of the leukemic index as a prognostic marker in Acute Coronary Syndrome, Jonathan Andrés Quintero Villamizar, a postgraduate student in Internal Medicine, presented a study entitled “Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and complications in patients with a first acute coronary syndrome in Bucaramanga”, at the XIV International Symposium of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, […]

Professor of the School of Health participates in event on the impact of air quality

Laura Andrea Rodríguez Villamizar

Professor Laura Andrea Rodríguez Villamizar, from the Department of Public Health of the School of Medicine, is participating in the “Second Conference on Air Quality and Health”, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO). The event that takes place in Cartagena, until next Friday, March 28, brings together governors, officials of multilateral agencies, academics and […]

Professor of the School of Medicine participated in the “XIV International Symposium of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery”

Professor Boris

Professor Boris Eduardo Vesga Angarita, MD. Specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. Master in Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Interventionism, and Full Professor, with 30 years of experience in undergraduate and postgraduate medical training, participated as a lecturer in the “XIV International Symposium of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery”, held in Cartagena, from March 20 to 22, 2025. […]

Faculty of Health joined the commemoration of cervical cancer prevention day

Officials of the School of Health and the Departmental Secretariat of Health

As part of the celebration of the “World Cervical Cancer Prevention Day”, in the facilities of the Scientific Complex for Health and Life Sciences Research, the “Symposium. Breaking the silence, what we all should know about the Human Papilloma Virus, HPV”. With the presence of the Secretary of Departmental Health, Edwin Antonio Prada, and the […]

GUINDESS: research group in demography, public health and health systems, among the best in the country

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The ranking of the best research groups of Higher Education Institutions, according to the production of scientific articles, was recently announced, according to the Art Sapiens Ranking. This publication by the consulting firm Sapiens Research, recognized by the international observatory IREG, states that according to its methodology, the best research groups were classified because they […]

Registration for the Medical Surgical Specialties is now open

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The School of Medicine informs that the inscriptions are open for the Medical Surgical Specialties for the year 2025, according to Academic Council Agreement 036 of February 25, 2025. Place of development of the programs: Bucaramanga – Santander.Registration Deadline: May 30, 2025 Click on the following link for more information:

XXI Pan-American Congress of Anatomy, XXVII Congress of Anatomy of the Southern Cone, and XVII Colombian Congress of Morphology, will be held at the Universidad Industrial de Santander

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A great academic event organized by the Department of Basic Sciences of the School of Medicine will be held at the School of Health from October 14 to 18. The joint realization of three important congresses in the field of Anatomy and Morphology: a) XXI Pan-American Congress of Anatomy. b) XXVII Congress of Anatomy of […]

Medical student achieved an international rotation at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Professor Oscar Leonel and student Laura Arciniegas

Laura Valentina Arciniegas, medical student and member of the Cardiovascular research group, attached to the Electrocardiography group, was admitted for a two-month rotation in the Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Erasmus University- Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This rotation was made possible thanks to the agreement between the Electrocardiography group, led by Professor Oscar Leonel and Dr. […]