About the Medicine Degree Course

This degree course forms in an integral way professionals that thanks to the knowledge, the latest technologies applied to experiential learning and the experience of our teachers will be able to promote health, cure diseases, and generate favorable changes in people’s lives.

Our methodology emphasizes the use of real cases and situations, which will enhance your learning experience to a new level. It also encourages critical thinking through the investigation of the current problems that affect people.

Faculty: Medicine

Duration: 14 semesters (7 years)

Site: Central Campus

Degree earned: Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine

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Why choose us?

Leaders

According to international rankings, we are the first Peruvian university*, the leading medical university in Peru**, and the best Peruvian university in research. ***

* Times Higher Education (THE)
** QS World University Rankings
*** Scimago Institutions Rankings

Specialized Teachers

A permanent teaching staff of more than 350 professors, more than 40 of whom hold doctorates.

Multiple Practice Seats

Rotations in public and private health facilities. Internships in more than 6 hospitals in Lima: Hospital Cayetano Heredia, Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Instituto Nacional del Niño, EsSalud, among others. And in more than 40 health centers.

Active and Relevant Learning

Classes in a first-class Simulation Center, with more than 30 instructors graduated from the Institute for Medical Simulation (USA) / Hospital Virtual Valdecilla (Spain). Small group learning, team-based learning (TBL), problem-based learning (ABP), flipped classroom.
Emphasis on learning and evaluation of professionalism and transversal competencies such as communication skills.

Rotations Abroad

More than 50% of our students do rotations abroad during the last years of their studies.

Internationalization

More than 100 agreements (international and national).

Generic Competencies of Graduate

Graduates integrate different types of thinking (scientific, logical, critical, systemic, and innovative) for the solution of complex problems through the mastery of cognitive skills such as logical reasoning in challenging situations. They are prepared to address present and future challenges in the exercise of their profession and to tackle the transformation of the environment as committed citizens 

Graduates use verbal and non-verbal language to interact effectively in various inclusive, multicultural, and multilingual contexts. Also, they make conscious use of information and communication technologies. They join collaborative work teams to achieve common goals in multicultural, academic, and professional contexts. Moreover, they assume leadership roles with responsibility and respect for other people’s views.

Graduates act ethically and responsibly in different academic, professional practice, and research contexts. They carry out their work honestly, rigorously, and coherently in terms of their values: tolerance, openness, responsibility, environmental awareness, respect, democratic participation, and a sense of belonging.

Graduates creatively propose innovative solutions to solve a situation or problem; they demonstrate initiative and take action in improving their environments within the framework of values consistent with sustainable development: tolerance, openness, responsibility, environmental awareness, respect, democratic participation, and a sense of belonging.

Program Curriculum

FIRST YEAR LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICINE

Deepening and perfecting your knowledge of the natural, exact, human, and social sciences during your studies at the Integral Basic Training Unit.

SECOND YEAR DEVELOP THE FOUNDATIONS OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL FUTURE

Learning the structure of the human being and how it functions under normal conditions; be prepared to develop research and make contact with communities to study and promote health issues.

THIRD YEAR BROADEN YOUR PRE-CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge of the pathogens that affect human health, the existing defense mechanisms, as well as the available drugs and their mechanisms of action.

FOURTH YEAR INTEGRATE THE CLINIC

Learning how to recognize signs and symptoms of health disorders, performing diagnosis and prevention of diseases in clinical fields or health care settings in hospitals and health centers.

FIFTH YEAR KNOW THE SPECIALTIES

Developing your competencies to provide optimal medical care and conduct research of relevance to the country.

SIXTH YEAR OF COMPULSORY AND ELECTIVE ROTATIONS AT THE EXTERNAL CLINIC

Starting in the professional practice and having time for elective rotations; deepen the medical specialties that interest you in hospitals and universities inside and outside the country, with which the Cayetano has agreements.

SEVENTH YEAR CONSOLIDATE AND APPLY YOUR KNOWLEDGE IN THE INTERNSHIP

With pre-professional internships in the major medical specialties at the best teaching centers in the country.

*Curriculum subject to modifications as part of the curriculum update process.

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They see health from a macro approach in the World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, and other UN agencies

They make a difference in hospitals and health centers of the Ministry of Health and EsSalud.

They contribute to local health in Regional Governments and Municipalities.

They develop an enterprise with their own practice

They contribute to the training of future professionals as university professors.

They take their knowledge to the most renowned health institutions worldwide.

International Agreements

Latin America

Brazil

  • Universidade de Sao Paulo

Chile

  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Europa

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Spain

  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Unisersidad de Valencia

North America

USA

  • MD Anderson Cancer Center / University of Texas
  • University of Miami
  • University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • University of Washington
  • Vanderbilt University

Our testimonials

Dr. Luciano Poggi Garland

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When I decided to study medicine, I wanted to go to a university that would allow me to practice in hospitals, learn from books and from professionals who do not lose sight of the human side in their dealings with patients. The training that Cayetano gave me was solid, and he also offered me the opportunity to do internships in different universities around the world, through his international agreements. Thanks to these rotations I began my training as a surgeon in the United States and obtained the certification of the American Board of Surgery, a source of satisfaction for any surgeon, particularly for a Latin American who decided to return to Peru to apply what he had learned. The university prepares you and gives you the basis to face any challenge in your professional life.

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