The Sunedu granted the license to the professional career of Medicine of the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) for a period of ten years, after verifying the existence of the Basic Conditions of Quality (CBC).
This is the first professional career in Peru to receive a degree. “It is a priority career, which has the character of public service and high impact on the life, safety or health of people,” said the National Superintendency of University Higher Education.
The entity recalls that, since 2007, it had not been verified in Peru whether the faculties or schools of Medicine complied with minimum quality standards, so that the evaluation of Medicine programs -which Sunedu implemented at the end of the ‘2019- represents a mechanism for the protection of individual and social well-being, which seeks to ensure comprehensive training for health professionals.
Given the specialization of these programs, the evaluation team is made up of expert medical professionals with extensive experience in university teaching and in processes of evaluation and academic accreditation.
The licensing of prioritized programs represents a new milestone in improving the quality of the university system. Through the evaluation of medical programs, we seek to raise the quality of medical training and contribute to the improvement of health services. pic.twitter.com/6JgDFKR9Y0
– Sunedu (@SuneduPeru) January 29, 2021
What was evaluated?
The licensing of this program evaluated the suitability of the teaching profiles, the equipment of the laboratories according to the curricula of each program, the sufficiency of the clinical and socio-sanitary fields for the academic activities in the different levels of attention and the provision of biosecurity services for teachers and students, among other key aspects, in order to ensure adequate training for medical students.
The license granted to the UPCH undergraduate professional career will be valid for 10 years. This deadline, the maximum to be awarded, was established based on variables related to research and training, such as the total number of publications in indexed journals in the last five years, the level of citation of their publications and the average score. obtained in the last three years by all the doctors who passed the National Examination of Medicine.
To date, the Superintendency is evaluating another 18 applications for the licensing of Medicine programs. A completely digitized procedure has been designed for this new process: the procedure is electronic, with digital signatures and without the need to present physical documents.
Finally, the licensing of undergraduate programs in Medicine represents a second milestone in the work of Sunedu, which is advancing towards the path of academic excellence, with a firm commitment to continue ensuring quality in the training of medical professionals. , which will bring improvements in public health and quality of life of citizens, says the institution.
About the university
The Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia was created on September 22, 1961 and obtained the institutional degree on July 27, 2016, with a license for 10 years. Its Medicine program is offered in two premises located in the districts of Sant Martà de Porres and La Molina, in Lima.
In 2018-II it has 1,141 students enrolled in the semester, 701 teachers, 294 ordinary teachers and 47 full-time teachers. In addition, it has 123 research-linked teachers, 22 (6.64%) Renacyt teachers and 632 university-affiliated publications between 2015-2020.
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