Academics and Accreditation
Medicine, Pharmacy, Nutrition, Physiotherapy and Microbiology at UCIMED are all five-year programs. Those programs are semester based and classes are taught in Spanish. During the first five semesters students get a bachelor's degree. During the fifth semester students start their internship (medicine) at hospitals from Costa Rican Department of Social Security such as the Hospital San Juan de Dios (Main General Hospital) and Hospital Mexico. After finishing the eleventh semester students obtain a degree.
In March 2003 the National System of Accreditation for Superior Education (SINAES), which is an state institution whose mission is to promote the progress in universities standards, granted the accreditation to UCIMED medicine career program. The Pharmachology career also has this accreditation. This turned UCIMED into the second university with an accredited career in medicine, after the Universidad de Costa Rica. The Pharmacy program was granted this accreditation as well. This accreditation assures that studies have international standards. For the 100th anniversary of Harvard School of Medicine, Dr. Guzman was an honor guest for this event, as Dean of the Escuela Autonomo de Ciencias Medicas, which is an honor and recognition of Harvard to a very small group of Deans and universities in the world.
The University is also part of the World Directory of Medical Schools from the World Health Organization
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