Physician & Surgeon
Embracing the Vitality of Healthcare
Career field
As a graduate of the career of Physician and Surgeon you will be able to participate professionally in diverse levels of clinical attention or pursue graduate studies in the areas of your choice.
¿Te identificas?
Si tienes un profundo interés por la ciencia y la salud y sientes que tienes vocación de servicio, la carrera de médico cirujano es para tí.
The Physician & Surgeon program aims to train leading and innovative professionals in the health field, sensitive to the needs of society, who solve health problems with a high humanitarian sense and who pay attention to the habits, values and beliefs of people and their families; who work as part of a health team with professionalism and ethics in accordance with the basic principles of medicine and the official regulations of health systems.
Competencies
- Promote the health and well-being of human beings and their surroundings, emphasizing timely disease prevention.
- Apply the best scientific evidence available in patient care and management.
- Address human health problems, integrating the relevant information to establish the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation plan.
Entry profile
Tecnológico de Monterrey is looking for a new generation of students that have finished their high school studies and are talented, enthusiastic individuals, who are committed to the development of their environment and the wellbeing of society; people who have the potential to study an undergraduate program and become leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit, humanistic sense and competitive on an international stage.
Entry requirements: High school or equivalent.
The three stages of the model
Choose your path
Exploration
- You will open your competency file and add to it throughout your degree program.
- You will learn the foundations of the area of Business.
- You will participate in fundamental and exploration challenges from the area of Business, interacting with peers from different degree programs.
- You will study general education courses, selecting them from a collection.
- You will participate in a challenge that integrates all the competencies to be developed in this phase.
Focus
- You will acquire the core competencies of your degree, in other words, those that distinguish it.
- You will participate in more focused challenges to reinforce what you have learned and broaden your basic knowledge.
- You will have the elements to decide whether to deepen your knowledge or diversify and, subsequently, build your specialization plan.
- The Tec Weeks, challenges and overall university experiences will enrich your file.
Specialization
- You have decided between diversifying or focusing deeply in your major, which you will achieve by choosing a concentration or a stay, to name a few of your options. The TEC Semester is a flexible time to start.
- You will develop the competencies related to your specialization, increasingly connected to your passions, interests and plans.
- If you decided to opt for a concentration, on graduating you will obtain a professional concentration certificate issued by the Office of the Registrar at your campus.
How can you specialize?
Concentrations
Specialize in one of the different concentrations available at the campus of your choice, according to the profile you would like to develop.
Internships
Internships allow you to participate in the development of specific projects with companies, organizations, or research groups, in a context of total immersion related to a specialty field. They can be carried out locally, nationally or internationally.
International experiences
Experience life outside Mexico to broaden your horizons and delve into the topics of your interest.
Courses or blocks
Choose the education units that best adapt to your objectives, enabling you to specialize in your specific interests.
Concentrations
Disciplinary
Delve into your field of study
Transversal
Delve into other fields of study
- Conscious Business
- Entrepreneurial Families, Sustainability and Transcendence
- Financial Vision for Decision-Making
*These concentraciones are not the definitive offer and their availability varies by campus.
General education course
Area exploration courses
Introductory block (CHALLENGE)
Area exploration block (CHALLENGE)
Exploration topic (CHALLENGE)
Track integrating block (CHALLENGE)
Disciplinary course
Disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
Integrating disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
TEC Semester
Multidisciplinary professional elective (CHALLENGE)
Final integrating block (CHALLENGE)
| MC |
| Remedial Semestral |
| Educational units from introductory semester |
| Primer Trimestral |
| Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic |
| Urology and Surgical Oncology |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Segundo Trimestral |
| Pediatrics Clinic |
| Infectology and Dermatology |
| Pediatrics |
| Tercer Trimestral |
| Internal Medicine Clinic |
| Cardiology and Metabolic Diseases |
| Internal Medicine |
| Cuarto Trimestral |
| Surgery Clinic |
| Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology |
| Surgery |
| Sexto Trimestral |
| Neurology and Neurosurgery Clinic |
| Geriatrics and Palliative Care Clinic |
| Psychiatry Clinic |
| Neurology and Neurosurgery |
| Geriatrics and Palliative Care |
| Psychiatry |
| Séptimo Trimestral |
| Clinical Elective I |
| Clinical Elective II |
| Clinical Elective III |
| Professional Elective I |
| Professional Elective II |
| Professional Elective III |
| Octavo Trimestral |
| Clinic in Elective Specialty I |
| Clinic in Elective Specialty II |
| Clinic in Elective Specialty III |
| Elective Specialty I |
| Elective Specialty II |
| Elective Specialty III |
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