• On-line registration form duly completed.
• Resume, in Institutionally established format to do this, attaching certificates and photocopies of documents that corroborate what is described therein.

• Recent photo type document pasted in resume format.
  Copy of the valid identity document in Colombia, or valid passport, in the case of foreigners.
• Copy of the diploma or undergraduate degree certificate required by the program, issued by a higher education institution recognized in Colombia. If the applicant has a degree from a university abroad, it must be duly apostilled and translated into Spanish, if it is in another language, and validated and approved by the Ministry of National Education, according to the current regulations established by this.
• Certificate of the grades obtained during the undergraduate degree in Medicine, with the mention of the weighted average and the inclusion of information about the year of internship. If this document is issued in another language, it must be duly translated into Spanish. It is not necessary to provide this document in the case of graduates graduated with an undergraduate degree obtained in the Universidad Industrial de Santander.
• Receipt of payment of registration in the amount of (0.5 SMMLV). To do this click here.
• All applicants for a Specialization Program must complete the online registration process at the “UIS Registration” button located at the bottom of this section or click here.

• Certification of the level of foreign language, which must be equivalent to or higher than level A1, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, according to a standardized test carried out or approved by the Institute of Languages of the UIS.

• • In case of having a certificate of proficiency in English (TOEFL, IELTS, MET-Michigan, FCE), French (DELF, DALF) or Portuguese (CELPE-BRAS) the application for homologation must be sent to the ilenguas.pruebas@uis.edu.co mail or ilenguas2@uis.edu.co attaching the certificate and a copy of the identity document.
  • Only certificates demonstrating proficiency in the foreign language will be approved, minimum level A1 in the four competences (speaking, listening, reading and writing). o The validity of the tests with result A1 and A2 is for 2 years, validity that must be active at the time of registration; that is, it must not have expired. Results with competence B2 and C have no expiration date.
  • UIS Language Institute has scheduled for 2022 at least two weekly sessions for the realization of the institutional tests of foreign language, one virtual and one face-to-face per week.
  • Applicants can consult the schedule with the dates for the institutional competence exam by clicking here.
  • Request the scheduling of extemporaneous dates to the ilenguas.recursos@uis.edu.co mail or The certification of a foreign language will not be required to those applicants who speak a native language or to those who have obtained the university degree in a foreign language, according to the description of such studies in the corresponding documents.

1. Work or research experience:

• It will be taken into account that related to the area of medicine, which is only valid for professions related to the social security system in health from the registration to advance the mandatory social service or obtaining the professional card (Decree 616 of 2021).
• Work experience must be certified by the head of the Human Resources Office, Head of Personnel or Human Talent of the entity where you have worked. In order for this documentation to be taken into account, it must contain the dates that allow calculating the calendar time of each experience.
• If two or more work experience documents certify overlapping linking dates, the sum of calendar time will be taken into account, regardless of the certified linking time on each document. For example, a certificate from January 1 to March 31, 2019 together with another from February 1 to December 31, 2019 will count as 12 months of experience (from January 1 to December 31, 2019) and not as 14 months, as could be inferred from adding the independent time each certificate.
• Contracts signed to carry out an activity are not considerable to prove professional experience since they constitute a promise and not evidence of a fulfilled fact.

2. Foreign language certificate, issued by the UIS Language Institute, as previously explained. For applicants who have two foreign language certifications, only the certificate that gives the highest score will be taken into account.

3. Distinctions or awards for academic performance. Only academic distinctions obtained during training or practice as a doctor will be taken into account. That is, and by way of example, labor, union, religious or civil distinctions will not be taken into account, nor those obtained during high school or other studies, as well as “nominations” for a distinction or having a “top five” or “top ten” type certificate, since the latter do not constitute having achieved the distinction or award for which it was chosen.

4. The weighted average in undergraduate Medicine, including year of internship, according to valid certification issued by the university from which the applicant is graduated. The grades of other undergraduate or postgraduate degrees that the applicant has advanced will not be taken into account.

5. Effective publications in the field of human medicine.

• To assign score in this field, the supports must allow to verify that the applicant is an author and identify without a doubt the name of the journal or book, and the year in which it was made. Thus, the score will be assigned according to the classification of the journal in each year according to Publindex del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de Colombia.

• The proceedings of congresses and other scientific events are not considered publications by themselves.

• The letter of acceptance of the editor of the journal that will publish an article is valid, as long as its date of issue is prior to the closing date of this call and allows validating the authorship of the applicant.

6. The records of participation with papers in congress of the field of human medicine:

• It must be evident, without a doubt, that the aspirant is an author.
• The content of the paper should be derived from original research. That is, certifications will not be taken into account in which it is indicated that the applicant is an assistant, lecturer, organizer or sponsor, among others.
• They are not valid as a support for presentation of the work in an event, the memories of the same. The appropriate support is the certificate issued by the event that indicates that the presentation was actually made.