-In the CADI UMAG offices, 33 graduates from the class of 2023 and 11 from the class of 2022 received their diplomas.
-Rector José Maripani closed his speech by stating that “I am sure that we will continue to achieve new goals and build our future Faculty of Medicine for the benefit of the inhabitants of the region.”
By Angela Molina Videla (note) and Monica Araus Sieber (photographs), Communications Directorate.
The University of Magallanes has just graduated a new generation of doctors. Last Friday, May 3, more than forty students experienced their graduation ceremony, who graduated in the years 2022 and 2023, now reaching the fourth generation, and more than one hundred graduates since the Medicine degree was opened in 2014.
The ceremony was headed by the rector José Maripani Maripani; the director of the School of Medicine, Mario Mayanz Csato; the Minister of Health, Francisca Sanfuentes Parga and; the president of the Medical College of Chile, Magallanes branch, José Antonio Sepúlveda, who, together with the faculty of the course, family and friends of the recent graduates, witnessed the joy and satisfaction of those who, starting today, They begin their professional practice in the medical area.
“Since its inception, our School of Medicine has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to academic quality and professional excellence. More than 100 doctors have been qualified by our university, and most importantly, all of them have successfully passed the demanding Eunacom, an eloquent testimony of the quality of the training that our students receive,” said the rector Maripani, highlighting that more than 50% of the graduates have remained practicing in Magallanes and 10% have directly accessed scholarship competitions for specialist training in various universities in the country.
Reviewing the decade of existence of the race in Magallanes, the Dr. Mario Mayanz, Meanwhile, he highlighted that “we have all made our way together as a health team in the undergraduate training in Medicine at our University with a regional perspective,” which in his opinion “has meant a great challenge, also being a prelude to new health projects.” growth in research, teaching, assistance and connection with the environment.” In this collaborative work, he especially thanked institutions such as the Teaching and Research Assistance Center of the University of Magallanes (CADI UMAG), the Magallanes Health Service, the Municipal Health Corporations and the Legal Medical Service “because they have been fundamental in our training – he said – providing us with the clinical fields to carry out the clinical teaching that our students require and carry out.
Finally, the academic urged his new colleagues to “maintain excellence in their continuous training (…) because they must be open to incorporating innovation, digital health, telemedicine, robotics and artificial intelligence, always under a interprofessional prism, with a sense of teamwork and, by the way, with a humanistic vision and the patient always at the center.”
The titled Francisca Peña Ford, She was in charge of addressing her classmates, and in her speech she had words of gratitude to all those who make up the program and, especially, “to the teachers who supported us and made this gravel and uphill road less difficult.” turbulent. Thank you for her dedication to us, for transmitting her vocation to us, for her dedication to patients and for her knowledge, perhaps showing for the first time the kind of doctors we wanted to be. And at this point I would like to make special mention of Dr. Stanko Karelovic and Dr. Germán Sepúlveda. Please never change and thank you totally,” she expressed.
From School to Faculty
The ceremony was also the opportunity for the academic authorities to refer to the projection of medical training at the University of Magallanes. In this way, the rector announced that “today, we also celebrate a new step on our path towards academic excellence: the transition from the School of Medicine to the Faculty of Medicine project.”
In Maripani’s opinion, “this important change will allow us to continue growing and developing as an institution, advancing in the design of programs that will allow us to begin the training of medical specialists in Magallanes in the near future. I am sure that we will continue to achieve new goals and build our future Faculty of Medicine for the benefit of the inhabitants of the region.”
In this regard, Mayanz complemented by reporting that they are already working on the first meetings in the clinical fields to plan training programs for postgraduate medical specialists.
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