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Introductory course of the program of medicine in which students become familiar with the values, personal rigor and commitment required to practice Medicine. The course consists of two modules: 1) hospital experiences at the Fundación Santafe de Bogota University Hospital, and 2) basic CPR training through the American Heart Association´s course "heartsaver".

The Communication Skills course is a part of the syllabus of Social Medicine in the program of Medicine. The objective of the course is to provide students of medicine with theoretic-practical elements of communication in order for them to delve into the different aspects of human communication, the contents and nuances of the doctor-patient relationship. The acquisition of this understanding, skills and attitudes will be essential to facilitate communication processes with the patients and their families, as well as with other colleagues and health professionals.

The Social Medicine course is a part of the curriculum of the Social Medicine area in medical school. Students in this course are expected to acquire theoretical – basic hands-on, allowing them to identify, recognize, and understand some of the components in the health-sickness process, using as reference the various approaches to the concepts of health, promotion, prevention, as well as a primary health attention strategy. During the course, students will make a house call which will aid in both the exploration of, as well as the analysis of all these elements and situations which generate risk or favor the health of patients and their families for purposes of preparing an intervention proposal which is directed at improving their health conditions.

The objective of this course is for students to learn and understand the basic concepts of epidemiology with emphasis on its application in social epidemiology as an area of public health. Through this course, students begin to acquire elements and an investigative attitude that are fundamental in their profession. In addition, they acquire skills so they can demonstrate a critical, constructive and creative approach as regards epidemiological studies in the future. The course is made up of lectures and a fundamental component is practicing the epidemiological methods, which will be done in workshops. Workshops are based on the analysis of a database of one or more epidemiological studies.

Human Anatomy is the science that studies the structure and organization of the human body, and it is fundamental to understand the way the organism functions and how its structure and function are altered by sickness. The purpose of the course of Anatomy is for students to learn and understand the structure of the human body and the impact on its function from a comprehensive perspective of the organism.

In this course, students learn and understand the events that lead to the anatomic organization of the adult human body from the time of fertilization. This course complements the study of anatomy and therefore, has been put together as one, although they have independent learning objectives and elements.

This course familiarizes medical students with the organized morphological structures of the human body. Students are required to understand histology in order to comprehend the bases of the physiological and pathological processes that take place in these structures, which are the topics of other courses in the program of Medicine, such as physiology and pathology. It also aims to relate students of medicine with each of the basic tissues of the human body, its structure, specializations and activities. In addition, it provides them with elements to guide their studies by means of the different organs of the human body, giving them the tools necessary for integration with other areas of medicine.

A comprehensive understanding of the organism´s normal function is the basis of medicine. "Physiology is the dynamic study of life ". In this course, students learn and understand the vital functions of living organisms, their organs, cells and molecules, and their mediating mechanisms. Three major principles that help student achieve this understanding are: 1. The vital role played by the genome. 2. The concept of "inner milleu" "organic liquid", 3. The homeostasis mechanisms that control vital parameters.

The social and economic impact of infectious illnesses on living beings has made microbiology one of the most studied fields in sciences, including medical sciences. Microbiology covers areas such as bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology and medical entomology, among others. This area not only attempts to classify, identify, determine pathogenesis, survival mechanisms, diagnostic tests and treatment of agents recognized historically as the cause of illnesses, re-emerging agents, but also the new agents transmitted to man. Since it is geographically located in the tropics, Colombia is a country with a high infectious disease rate. It is therefore the duty of physicians to learn the microbial agents in their different aspects for diagnosis and treatment. Similarly, thanks to globalization (commercialization of products and continuous trips between countries and continents), it is important to learn the infectious agents that circulate around the world due to the presence of epidemics such as those we are dealing with today.

The current development and advances in immunology, along with the multiple applications in clinical practices, laboratory, therapeutics and research have made it necessary for students of medicine to delve into this area of medical sciences early on in their training. Understanding immunology not only as a system of defense against external aggressions, but also as a participant in pathological processes has led to the discovery of diagnostic methods and new forms of therapy. This course is an introduction to basic immunology as a natural as well as specific response. By the end of the course, students will be capable of understanding the basic immunological phenomena and the general mechanisms that usually operate in the human immune system.

Pathology is the part of medicine in charge of capturing a global view of a disease starting with the comprehensive diagnosis and the correlations that it manages to make of the factors and mechanisms involved in the process of a disease. At present, there are different sources of information and experimentation, such as the procedures and tools used to understand the processes of alteration in the organism: Chemical processes in the laboratory, the study of specimens, biopsies, clinical-pathological reports, microscopic and macroscopic observation before and after death –autopsies-, images, medical histories, illnesses, etc. Recognizing these sources of information is fundamental as input for the prevention and curing of diseases.

Today, you can practically say there is no branch of science where medicine is not used, either for therapeutic or prophylactic application, or for diagnostic purposes, this is why physicians are required to have an extensive understanding of pharmacology, to be able to select medicines properly from among the number of options available on the market and use medicine reasonably in their practice. This course in basic pharmacology, aimed at students of medicine, has been designed in order to achieve this objective. This course is a part of the comprehensive education of students of medicine in pharmacology, along with training in clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics.

This is the laboratory corresponding to the course of Microbiology and Immunology. Students carry out laboratory techniques that are frequently used in microbiology and immunology.

Complementary laboratory to the parasitological course. Students perform laboratory techniques frequently used for the visualization and identification of parasites.