The university of Córdoba set as a goal to achieve the authorization and opening of the Medicine race in the first semester of 2026, as confirmed by Rector Jairo Torres Oviedo. The program, which will offer 40 quotas per semester, will represent an achievement for public higher education of the department.
“Our goal is that, for the second semester, before finishing this year, we can already have all these stages,”he explained Torres Oviedo during interview with Larazón.co, referring to the approval process that would culminate con “The qualified registration document, the license to start operating the first half of the year 2026”.
The program creation process has a joint work year and a half with the University of Cartagena as an advisor. The qualified registration document, which details the minimum institutional conditions, will be ready at the end of May 2025 to initiate its internal process.
The new career will be integrated into the Faculty of Existing Health Sciences. “We have a nursing program, we have a bacteriology program, we have a pharmacy regency program (…) there would also be the medicine program,” The Rector detailed.
The program contemplates the possibility of implementing annual cuts instead of semiannual due to limitations of the Regional Hospital Network. Torres Oviedo anticipated that differential quotas will be established for students from rural areas: “We would have to think (…) seek a methodology within the framework of university autonomy of how differential quotas are given. ”
Among the specific requirements that the University must meet include Anatomy Laboratories with simulatorsagreements with hospital entities for practices and a specialized teaching staff. “This has a complexity, but we with our Faculty of Health (…) We have a very strong, very important faculty of health sciences.”said the rector.
Torres Oviedo emphasized institutional responsibility in medical training: “This is a career where you are not forming, but people who are going to deal with health and human life, so the university has an immense responsibility.”
