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Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara

Founded in 1935, the School of Medicine is an institution engaged in the training and formation of physicians, whose main goal is to improve community health through the following:


Providing good medical education.
Discovering and adapting medical knowledge.
Providing health care services in the clinical fields of learning.
Developing a positive attitude towards the protection and preservation of the environment.
Educating future physicians in an integral way according to the UAG principles, beliefs, and values.
Professional Profile of the UAG Medical Graduate

Our graduate is a professional capable of practicing medicine as a scientific discipline, with a humanitarian attitude, and capable of protecting human life through actions that promote, preserve, and restore individual or group health, in their physical, ecological, and social environment.

Their skills are summarized in the following principles:

Maintaining a permanent attitude of self-criticism combined with a sense of personal improvement in all professional activities.
Applying clinical skills for a keen and opportune diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.
Applying criteria for the opportune referral of patients that require specialized diagnosis and treatment.
Managing epidemiological techniques for the diagnosis of the health-disease process, participating in the epidemiological surveillance system.
Emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention.
Applying rehabilitation procedures to limit damage.
Contributing to the education of new health professionals and the community.
Participating in health care teams.
Analyzing and using information generated from the professional field.
Acting ethically throughout the professional practice. In addition, seeking continuous improvement in general culture.
Performing successfully in their community health care system.
Practicing general medicine or to be able to continue in a residence program.
Using when necessary the advantage of the bilingual/bicultural skills.

Q: How long has the International Medical School (IMS) been in existence?

A: More than 65 years.

Q: What are the entrance/admissions requirements?

A: Please Contact school for addmissions requirements

Q: Is an undergraduate degree required in order to start school (matriculate)?

A: No.

Q: Are there specific residency or foreign language requirements?

A: English and Spanish

Q: Is the MCAT required or optional?(matriculate)?

A: Please contact school for further infromation

Q: What are the entrance/admissions requirements?

A: Please contact school for application and more information.

Q: If interviews are required, where are they held?

A: Please contact school for further information.

Q: What are mean Science and Overall GPAs for the previous entering class?


A: Please contact school for further information

Q: How many classes of students enter each year, and when are the application deadlines?

A: Class sizes vary, seats are limited

Q: What are estimated annual expenses, including tuition and fees, books,
supplies, study materials, housing, food, travel and other living costs, hidden
fee’s/costs?

A: COST OF ATTENDANCE (COA)

The Cost of Attendance ( COA ) is how much the school will cost you for one year. The UAG defined the amounts according to a standard definition by Congress.

The COA may vary depending on your lifestyle. Tuition and fees will remain fixed throughout your whole career. Restrictions may apply, and you must contact your Financial Aid Counselor for more information.

The COA is comprised of direct and indirect costs. Direct costs are all the monies you must pay to the school, such as tuition, special courses and fees.
Indirect cost will be the room and board, food, supplies, transportation, personal expenses, immigration fees, etc.

Your current consumer debt is not part of the COA, only educational-related items. Consider paying off your credit card (s), car payments, mortgage, weddings, etc. prior to entering school.

These items are not covered on your COA, you must plan in advance how you will be making the payments and or liquidating all ( or part) of your consumer debt before attending school. Do this to avoid any delays on payments and any damage to your credit score.

Check the COA below that applies to you and make your annual budget so that you are prepared for the entire academic year.

The amounts shown are the maximums allowed but UAG encourage you to borrow only what you really need.

If you have any questions, please contact your Financial Aid Counselor.

This cost of attendance applies to all students who entered
the UAG on or after August 2006

2007-01 FINANCIAL AID BUDGETS

Financial Obligations

. 1st. - 4th. Years

5th. Years
6th. Year
Single Married Single Married Single Married
Tuition $22,000
$22,000
$4,000
$4,000 $3,500
$3,500

Fees $180

$180
$00
$00 $00
$00

Books, Supplies & Equipment $2,705

$2,705
$2,400
$2,400 $2,400
$2,400

Special Courses $1,850 $1,850
$00 $00 $00 $00

Housing $10,000
$14,000
$10,000
$14,000
$10,000
$14,000

Food $5,910
$7,260
$5,910
$7,260
$5,910
$7,260

Personal expenses $6,000
$8,560
$6,000
$8,560
$6,000
$8,560

Transportation $2,090
$4,180
$2,090
$4,180
$2,090
$4,180

Immigration $90 $180 $90 $180 $90 $180
Total $50,825
$60,915
$30,490
$40,580 $29,990
$40,080

DISCLAIMER: RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY.

This cost of attendance applies to all students who entered
the UAG on or before January 2006

2007-01 FINANCIAL AID

COST OF ATTENDANCE ( COA )

.
1st. - 4th. Years
5th. Year
6th. Year

Single
Married
Single
Married
Single
Married

Tuition
$17,580
17,580
$3,000
$3,000
$2,480
$2,480

Fees
$180
$180
$00
$00
$00
$00

Books, Supplies
& Equipment
$2,705
$2,705
$2,400
$2,400
$2,400
$2,400

Special Courses
$1,850
$1,850
$00
$00
$00
$00

Housing
$10,000
$14,000
$10,000
$14,000
$10,000
$14,000

Food
$5,910
$7,260
$5,910
$7,260
$5,910
$7,260

Personal
expenses
$6,000
$8,560
$6,000
$8,560
$6,000
$8,560

Transportation
$2,090
$4,180
$2,090
$4,180
$2,090
$4,180

Immigration
$90
$180
$90
$180
$90
$180


Total
$46,405
$56,495
$29,490
$39,580
$28,970
$39,060

DISCLAIMER: RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY.

Q: How do students fund their education? What loan programs and scholarships are students eligible for?

A: The School of Medicine has been approved by the US Department of Education to participate in the US government-sponsored student loan program.
There is an alternative loan program which supplements these loans to the cost of attendance for creditworthy US borrowers. The University offers partial loan/scholarship schemes to eligible non-US students.

Q: How many students are enrolled in each class? What is the attrition rate for
matriculated students, i.e., how many typically dropout before finishing?
What are common reasons for dropping out?

A: Please contact school for more information.

Q: What is the length and structure of the entire curriculum?

A: The First Four Years

Undergraduate medical training includes study of the basic sciences, laboratory work, and intensive clinical instruction. This program differs substantially from many U.S. medical-school curricula in that actual clinical exposure begins immediately, rather than after basic-sciences instruction. At the successful conclusion of the first four years of medical education and training, the student receives the Medico Cirujano (Physician-Surgeon) Diploma.

Internship

The fifth year, or Internado, is spent in an undergraduate rotating internship, where the student gains further clinical experience and competence at a university hospital or affiliated institution.

The Professional Examination

The Examen Profesional (professional examination) may be taken anytime following the successful completion of the internship. This examination must be passed before an individual may receive his or her medical degree (see below: The Medical Degree).

Social Service

As the name implies, Social Service (Servicio Social) is a full one-year, mandatory, federally supported activity. All medical graduates in México participate for the benefit of the underserved population. These are done primarily in very small, economically disadvantaged towns devoid of health-care facilities.

The Medical Degree

Upon completion of the social service and upon successfully passing the Professional Examination, the UAG graduate physician is awarded his or her medical degree: the Título de Médico-Cirujano (Degree of Physician-Surgeon).
Q: What are the academic credentials of the faculty teaching basic science
courses? Where were they educated?

A: The UAG School of Medicine’s international prestige is derived from more than 65 years of constant effort to reach excellence through curricular innovations destined to improve the teaching-learning process. This is in addition to the acknowledgement presented to the University by the President of United States in 1991 in recognition of the outstanding education provided to its more than 8000 medical graduate residing in the U.S.

Q: Where do students do their clinical training?

A: 2007
SPECIALTY RESIDENCY OBTAINED

Family Practice Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX

Emergency Medicine NYMC, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY

Internal Medicine Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA

Surgery (Preliminary) Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

Internal Medicine NYMC, Sound Shore Medical Center, New Rochelle,NY

Internal Medicine University of Texas, Galveston, TX

Family Practice Williamsport Family Practice, Williamsport, PA

Internal Medicine Staten Island University Medical Center, Staten Island, NY

Psychiatry Seton Hall University, Trinitas Hospital, Elizabeth, NJ

Family Practice Williamsport Family Practice, Williamsport, PA

Surgery (Preliminary) Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

Radiology (PGY II) NYMC, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, New York, NY

Pediatrics University of Texas Medical Branch Austin, TX

Internal Medicine Damas Hosp/Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, PR

Internal Medicine Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, Dallas TX

Family Practice University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley, Appleton, WI

Family Practice University of Wisconsin, Wausau, WI

Internal Medicine University of So. California, LAC/USC, Los Angeles, CA

Family Practice Harbor, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Family Practice University of Texas, McAllen Program, McAllen, TX

Family Practice Harbor, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Family Practice NYMC, St. Vincent’s Brooklyn/Queens, Jamaica, NY

Psychiatry NYMC, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY

Internal Medicine San Juan VA Medical Center, San Juan, PR

Pediatrics Maimonedes Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Family Practice University of Texas, McAllen Program, McAllen, TX

Family Practice University of Texas SW, Parkland, Dallas, TX

Psychiatry University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR

Emergency Medicine University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK

Family Practice University of Wisconsin, Wausau, WI

Emergency Medicine NYMC, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY

Family Practice Broadlawns Medical Center, Des Moines, IO

Internal Medicine Damas Hosp/Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, PR

Family Practice University of CA, (San Francisco), Fresno, Ca

Neurology Medical University of So. Carolina, Charleston, SC

Q: How do students perform on USMLE I and II? In recent years, what are the
1st time and total pass rates for students from this school?

A: Although applicants are accepted into the program on a competitive basis, the great majority of U.S. students at the UAG since 1971 have continued their medical training through Fifth Pathway.

Upon acceptance, the new Fifth Pathway student is enrolled in a year-long program of supervised clinical training in the United States, at the successful conclusion of which the student is given a certificate of completion. The University will honor this Fifth Pathway year as fulfillment of the internship requirement if the student has properly registered for Internado with the UAG.

Q: How many students graduate each year?

A: Class size varies.

Q: What are the entrance/admissions requirements?

A: Please contact school for further information and application

Q: How can I contact some former IMS graduates who are practicing in the U.S.
in my area?

A:Please contact school for a list of graduates and email addresses.

Q: How can I contact the IMS – telephone, fax, e-mail, WWW?

A:coming soon!!!

Q: Who is the Dean of Admissions?

A: Coming soon!!!!!

All information courtesy of Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara

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