postgraduate
Specialization in Orthopedics and
traumatology
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ABOUT THE
Program
The Orthopedics and Traumatology program of Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) was born responding to a regional need for specialists in this area, after a careful study of the needs and expectations of work in this specialty for the Colombian northeastern region, where there was no such possibility of training but a clear deficit of professionals in this specialty.
Bucaramanga, Santander: SNIES 2622| Qualified Registration: MEN N.° 004638 of March 24, 2023.
DEGREE:
Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology
DURATION:
4 Levels
MODALITY::
In-Person / In-Spanish
CAMPUS
UIS Bucaramanga Health Campus
APPLICANT
Profile
The UIS Orthopedist and Traumatologist Aplicants must be general physicians with attitudes in the following fields:
Healthcare: They must have an attitude and an inclination towards knowledge of the promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of surgical management pathologies, both elective and emergency, of the skeletal muscle system.
Administrative: You must have general knowledge of the country’s health model, the management and administrative management of companies and institutions with surgical services.
Teacher: Open attitude towards collaboration in teaching our service.
Research: The training of a surgical specialist who has no research orientation in his specialty is not conceived today with the development of skills that allow him to identify and design research processes with a critical and scientific analysis capacity of literature in his specialty.
GRADUATE
Profile
The specialist in orthopedics and traumatology must meet the following human, scientific, technical, and social characteristics to fully comply with his professional practice:
Ability to establish communication and empathy with the patient, their families, and the other team members who manage the patient, with a view to achieving adequate psychological, clinical, and surgical preparation for the intervention of a patient.
Skilled, safe, and effective management of surgical and non-surgical techniques.
Having motor and intellectual skills that lead you to promptly diagnose the abnormalities inherent in trauma and clinical conditions that endanger the patient’s life, and to treat and manage them with the least morbidity possible, avoiding permanent aftermath.
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Being trained to diagnose and manage acute skeletal muscle system disease problems.
Skills for the correct handling of motorized equipment used in orthopedic surgery.
Motivation towards research activities and basic elements for the development of them, either for individual application or as part of research groups.
Basic knowledge of managing patients if disasters, individual or collective, small or massive, with the development of leadership attitudes that allow him to participate as a member of the team or as a director of the team. Motivation towards research, planning, organization, and participation in scientific teaching programs, management, and prevention of individual or collective accountability.
Ability to handle the concept of teaching healthcare integration.
Extensive knowledge and strict adherence to the current regulations regarding the ethical and legal aspects of the orthopedist’s professional practice.
LABOR
Field
Specialists in Orthopedics and Traumatology are professionals able to diagnose and intervene in patients with traumatic and non-traumatic conditions of the skeletal muscle system under ethical, legal, and humanization principles of health.
OUR
Accreditations
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Accredited for four years, as provided in MEN Resolution No. 004638 of 2023.
APPLICANT
Profile
The Aspiring UiS Orthopedist and Traumatologist should be a young general physician with attitudes in the following fields:
Healthcare: You must have attitude and inclination towards knowledge of the promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of surgical management pathologies, both elective and emergency of the skeletal muscle system.
Administrative: You must have general knowledge of the country’s health model, the management and administrative management of companies and institutions with surgical services.
Teacher: Frank attitude towards collaboration in teaching our service.
Investigative: The training of a surgical specialist that has no research orientation in the area of his specialty is not conceived today, with the development of skills that allow him to identify and design research processes with a critical and scientific analysis capacity of literature in his specialty.
GRADUATE
Profile
The specialist in orthopedics and traumatology must come to meet the following human, scientific, technical, and social characteristics to fully comply with his professional practice:
- Ability to establish communication and empathy with the patient, their families, and the other team members who manage the patient and with a view to achieving adequate psychological, clinical, and surgical preparation in the intervention of a patient.
- Skilled, safe, and effective management of surgical and non-surgical techniques.
- Have motor and intellectual skills that lead you to promptly diagnose the abnormalities inherent in trauma and clinical conditions that endanger the patient’s life, and to treat and manage them oriented to the conservation of life with the least morbidity possible, avoiding permanent aftermath.
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- Be trained to diagnose and manage acute skeletal muscle system disease problems.
- Skills for the correct handling of motorized equipment used in orthopedic surgery.
- Motivation towards research activities and basic elements for the development of them, either for individual application or as part of research groups.
- Basic knowledge of managing patients in case of disasters, individual or collective, small or massive, with development of leadership attitudes that allow him to participate as a member of the team or as a director of the team. Motivation towards research, planning, organization, and participation in scientific teaching programs, management, and prevention of individual or collective risks.
- Ability to handle the concept of teaching healthcare integration.
- Extensive knowledge and strict adherence to the current regulations regarding the ethical and legal aspects of the orthopedist’s professional practice.
LABOR
Field
The specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology will be a professional able to diagnose and intervene in patients with traumatic and non-traumatic conditions of the skeletal muscle system, under ethical, legal, and humanization principles of health.
OUR
Accreditations
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Accredited for four years, as provided in MEN Resolution No. 004638 of 2023.
Academic
Curriculum
Code: 26854 Credits: 6 – Anatomy
Code: 26855 Credits: 33 – Orthopedics and Traumatology I
Code: 26856 Credits: 28 – Emergencies in Orthopedics and Traumatology
Code: 26857 Credits: 6 – Clinical Epidemiology and Research
Code: 26858 Credits: 5 – Plastic Surgery
Code: 26859 Credits: 6 – Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Code: 26860 Credits: 18 – Orthopedics and Traumatology II
Code: 26861 Credits: 17 – Foot and Ankle Clinic
Code: 26862 Credits: 21 – Knee Clinic
Code: 26863 Credits: 6 – Research I
Code: 26864 Credits: 22 – Children’s Orthopedics
Code: 26865 Credits: 19 – Orthopedics and Traumatology III
Code: 26866 Credits: 25 – Orthopedics and Traumatology IV (extramural)
Code: 26867 Credits: 6 – Research II
Code: 26868 Credits: 17 – Spine clinc
Code: 26869 Credits: 17 – Hip Clinic
Code: 26870 Credits: 17 – Orthopedics and Traumatology V
Code: 26871 Credits: 17 – Upper limbs (shoulder, elbow, and hand)
Code: 26872 Credits: 6 – Research III
KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
| Bucaramanga | |||||
1st Semester 2022 * Subject to demand | Registration oppening Registration closing Entrance exams Interview Last day to accept the quota | 2022 may 4 2022 august 4(deadline for registration payment july 29) 2022 august 25 2022 october 18-25 2022 november 8 |
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
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SPECIFICS REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PROGRAM
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Inscription 0.5 S.M.M.L.V. Tuition fees per semester 1 S.M.M.L.V. Academic fees per semester 5 S.M.M.L.V. |  | The university has a mechanism through which the financial obligations of a student can be partially or totally covered by a company or entity that wishes to support the student. Also, various forms of payment have been arranged so that students can combine the available forms of payment according to their particular conditions. On the page “Start registration process” you will find the available options. Additionally, to facilitate access to postgraduate programs, the UIS has signed various agreements with entities specialized in educational credit. These agreements seek facilities and better credit conditions for UIS students. * Students who have the voting certificate from the last popular election process in Colombia may request a 10% discount on tuition fees. |
KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
2nd semester
2022
*Subject to demand of the program.
Bucaramanga
Registration start
May 4, 2022
registration payment deadline
July 29, 2022
Registration deadline
August 4, 2022
Entrance exams
August 25, 2022
Interviews
October 18-25, 2022
Last day to accept the quota
november 8, 2022
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
- UIS registration form duly completed and signed.
- Resume, it has to be done in the UIS format established institutionally for this purpose, with the attachment of the certificates and copies of documents that corroborate what is described in it.
- Photocopy of valid identity document valid in Colombia or valid passport for foreigners.
- Recent document type photo, preferably in digital format, white background 3×4.
- Photocopy of the diploma or photocopy of the undergraduate degree certificate required by the program, issued by a recognized HEI in Colombia.
- Notice 1: If the applicant has a degree from a foreign university, it must be duly apostilled and translated into Spanish if it is in a foreign language. The degrees must be validated by the Ministerio de Educación Nacional de la República.
- Certificate of grades obtained during undergraduate studies in Medicine, with the mention of the weighted average and the inclusion of information about the year of internship.
- Notice 2: If this document is issued in a foreign language, it must be duly translated into Spanish.
- Notice 3: It is not necessary to provide this document in the case of alumni with undergraduate degrees obtained at Universidad Industrial de Santander.
- Professional medical card or resolution issued by the Ministry of Health, which authorizes him/her to practice medicine in the national territory, after registration with the Santander Health Secretariat.
- Certification of foreign language level equivalent to or higher than level A1 according to the CEFR for languages, according to standardized test or issued by the UIS Language Institute.
- Notice 4: This certification will not be required for those applicants who are native speakers of a foreign language or who have obtained a university degree in a foreign language, according to the description of such studies in the corresponding documents.
- Receipt of payment issued by the UIS treasury for the current value of the registration or receipt of consignment in the account authorized by the UIS.
SPECIFICS REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PROGRAM
- AA
- BB
- CC
- Notice A: All the documents listed above must have a digital version in PDF in order to complete the online registration process.
- Notice B: All documents must be submitted physically. To hand the documents in, please go to the postgraduate office of the program in the city where you wish to take the academic program or to the offices of the entity with which the UIS has an agreement with.
- Notice C: When physical documents are submitted, additional documents that you consider relevant for the admission must be attached.
- Notice D: On the page “Start the registration process” the formats to fill out the requested documentation can be downloaded.
Inscription
0,5 S.M.M.L.V.
Tuition fees per semester
1 S.M.M.L.V.*
Academic fees per semester
5 S.M.M.L.V.
The university has a mechanism through which the financial obligations of a student can be partially or totally covered by a company or entity that wishes to support the student.
Also, various forms of payment have been arranged so that students can combine the available forms of payment according to their particular conditions. On the page “Start registration process” you will find the available options.
Additionally, to facilitate access to postgraduate programs, the UIS has signed various agreements with entities specialized in educational credit. These agreements seek facilities and better credit conditions for UIS students.
* Students who have the voting certificate from the last popular election process in Colombia may request a 10% discount on tuition fees.
OUR
Faculty
José Luis Osma Rueda
Master in Clinical Epidemiology, Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Subspecialist in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Diego Fernando Rincón Cardozo
Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Specialist in hand
Anderson Estiven David Rivera
Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Foot and Ankle Subspecialist
Carlos Orlando Díaz Mantilla
Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Fellowship in Orthopedics Trauma, Hip Subspecialist
Ricardo Guzmán Vargas
Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Subspecialist in Children's Orthopedics
Josué Calderón Gamba
Subspecialist in Hip and Knee Joint Replacement and Reconstructive Surgery
research
Groups and Hotbeds
AGREEMENTS
and allies
The UIS has established different agreements with national and international entities in order to have a greater impact on their training, teaching, research and related processes in the articulation of the public university with the different social actors.
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Contact Us
Surgery Department
Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3104 – 3022
E-mail:
jpserran@uis.edu.co
depcirg.posgrados@uis.edu.co
UIS Health Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Cra 32 No. 29-31.
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us
Surgery Department
Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3104 – 3022
E-mail:
jpserran@uis.edu.co
depcirg.posgrados@uis.edu.co
UIS Health Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Cra 32 No. 29-31.
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us
Surgery Department
Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3104 – 3022
E-mail:
jpserran@uis.edu.co
depcirg.posgrados@uis.edu.co
UIS Health Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Cra 32 No. 29-31.
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.