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Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialists Training Program

Overview

The University of Antofagasta's Obstetrics and Gynecology specialists training program is intended to train specialists with a solid academic base, skills, and values that allow them to attend to and solve women-specific pathologies in all stages, including pregnancy, as well as to maintain a human and ethical treatment with the patient and their family. With the skills to carry applied research and management activities while aware of the need for continuous professional development.

Overall Goal

To train specialists in Obstetrics and Gynecology who are able to lead health teams oriented to the promotion, prevention, and integral healthcare of women’s reproductive and sexual health throughout their entire life cycle in an ethical way, based in the current knowledge of physiological and pathological processes that allow for an informed performance of the specialty’s diagnosis and therapeutic processes.

Specific Goals
  1. To train specialists able to prevent, recognize, and comprehensively solve women’s gynecological and obstetric problems through the usage of various specialty diagnosis and therapy methods.
  2. To strengthen the development of the skills necessary to conduct and evaluate research within the field, and to reach an informed opinion to educate, promote, and prevent gynecological and obstetric diseases in the community.
  3. To develop clinical skills in professionals that allow them to perform as specialists in Obstetrics and Gynecology, be it in a hospital or outpatient context, or to choose to continue their training in a related specialty.
  4. To promote the development of skills to lead multidisciplinary health teams that allow for a comprehensive approach in the prevention and resolution of women’s gynecological and obstetric problems.
  5. To encourage self-learning and staying up to date on the field’s recent knowledge to renew and improve the professional’s work, with a marked focus in professional ethics.

A specialist graduating from the University of Antofagasta’s Obstetrics and Gynecology program has the skills to recognize and comprehensively manage women’s health issues in their community, particularly in the gynecology and obstetrics fields, by picking and interpreting the field’s diverse diagnosis and therapy techniques, with a strong commitment to professional ethics. Additionally, they will have the necessary skills to lead health teams that educate about and treat women’s gynecological health, aiming to improve it in its different stages.

  1. They develop strategies for the prevention and promotion of gynecological-obstetric health, considering social, ethical, and cultural factors, as well as current epidemiological changes.
  2. They perform standard diagnosis and therapy procedures within the field, in strict adherence to current national and international technical standards and guidelines, putting patient safety first.
  3. They organize and lead multidisciplinary health teams related to their specialty.
  4. They communicate regarding diagnosis and treatment information to their patients in different healthcare contexts, promoting an empathetic relationship based in mutual respect.
  5. They critically analyze and interpret current scientific information in accordance with the principles of evidence-based medicine, aiming to stay up to date in the knowledge they base their professional practice around.

Obstetrics and Gynecology center in Antofagasta’s Clinical Regional Hospital, its attached specialty practice, and Primary Healthcare Offices.

Parallel activities will also be carried out in the University of Antofagasta’s clinical area.

According to availability and the student’s choices, this may be complemented with internships in other training centers. Currently, we have an agreement with the Carlos Van Buren Hospital in Valparaíso.

The program has a duration of 3 years, with 4 weeks of break per school year, and acts in accordance with legal holidays for those professionals coming from an institution with whom they maintain a contractual link. Holidays are not cumulative, cannot be divided and will be taken preferably in December, January, and February, in an order determined by the Program’s Director.

Fees
Ministerial Scholarships:
  • Annual Tuition Fee: $7.372.142 CLP
  • Registration Fee: $300.000 CLP
Self-financed, teaching grants, and others:
  • Annual Tuition Fee: $6.500.000 CLP.
  • Registration Fee: $300.000 CLP
Student quota

The number of seats is decided each year by the Program’s Advisory Board.

Applicant profile:

Applicants to the Obstetrics and Gynecology specialists training program must have the following skills, qualities, and competencies:

  • To value and be skilled in communication, so as to establish optimal relationships with both patients and healthcare teams.
  • A vocation for the comprehensive care of patients in the obstetrics and gynecology fields.
  • To value and exercise medical-scientific ethics with a serviceable attitude in their professional work.
  • Oriented to work in interdisciplinary health teams, valuing respect for human dignity and diversity.
  • Initiative and responsibility for carrying out academic and healthcare activities.

Application Requirements:

Requirements for application are defined in articles 7 and 8 of the ”University of Antofagasta’s General Regulations for Postgraduate Programs in Medical Specialties”.
Article 7. Requirements for admission: Applicants to a postgraduate degree in a medical specialty must meet the following admission requirements:

  1. To have a Physician professional diploma awarded by a Chilean university. Degrees awarded by foreign universities must comply with all the requirements established by law for the profession to be validly exercised in Chile.
  2. Chilean applicants must have taken and passed the National Examination of Knowledge in Medicine (EUNACOM) or an equivalent in accordance with current regulations. This will not be required of applicants that graduated before 2003.

Each program will apply a relevant and specific assessment test and/or qualification calculation according to each specialty’s requirements.
Article 8. Application Process: The application process will be carried out before the Program, in a modality set by the Board for each call, and applicants must attach the following documentation:

  1. Physician Professional Diploma.
  2. EUNACOM pass certificate.
  3. National Medical Qualification.
  4. Scientific work.
  5. Participation in assistant teacher programs.
  6. Participation in university teaching.
  7. Work experience.
  8. Attendance to courses and conferences.
  9. Professional development activities.
  10. Outstanding student quality.
  11. Undergraduate grades report, from which aspects relevant to each postgraduate program will be evaluated according to the Board’s previous decision.

Score will be determined by the Applicants Selection Board and will be set according to a score guideline for each requested item, given to the applicants in a timely manner through the application bases.

There are many selection processes depending on the type of contest offered by the program, which is reviewed every year by the Program’s Advisory Board and must be directly related to current offers made by MINSAL.

MINSAL Quota Selection process:

Requirements for selection: HABILITATION NOT REQUIRED

The program’s selection board, through its Director, will inform applicants of results through their official channels of communication.

The selection process contemplates the following sections, which are weighted as follows:

  1. National Medical Qualification 50%.
  2. Personal Interview 30%.
  3. Psychological evaluation 10%.
  4. Certificates of attendance and/or participation in congresses, conferences, courses, and training or professional development activities. Research papers published or presented at conferences (or accepted and in the press): copy of their abstract 10%.
  • The requirement of having passed the EUNACOM and National Qualification with grades over 5.5 is exclusive.
  • The weighting of each item will be announced for each contest.
Application and selection process contact

Director: Dr. Eric Fritz Jara
Mail: Eric.fritz@uantof.cl
Address: Avda. Argentina 2000, Área Clínica Universidad de Antofagasta.

Program Secretary: Ximena Sánchez Aracena
Mail: ximena.sanchez@uantof.cl
Address: Avda. Argentina 2000, Área Clínica Universidad de Antofagasta.

Obstetrics and Gynecology center in Antofagasta’s Clinical Regional Hospital, its attached specialty practice, and Primary Healthcare Offices.

Parallel activities will also be carried out in the University of Antofagasta’s Clinical Area.

According to availability and the student’s choices, this may be complemented with internships in other training centers. Currently, we have an agreement with the Carlos Van Buren Hospital in Valparaíso.

Program Start Date

  • May to June each year.
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