CC 2009 Integrative Medicine

Upon completion of this course, students will recognize traditional, alternative, and complementary medicine as an important element of our culture, describing other expressions of medical care such as homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, reflexology, aromatherapy, iridology, etc. which the population demand and which can be provided along with allopathic health services to form integrative medical care.

CC 2008 Geriatrics

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to analyze the stages of retirement and/or death in the various family types as well as their most frequent crises and functionality adjustment mechanisms in order to effectively support the functional dynamics of families with elderly members. This will be achieved through readings, research and field research, carried out both individually and as a team.

CC 2007 Clinical Pharmacology

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to build knowledge of applied kinetic dynamics and of the drugs used for the most common diseases. In addition, they will distinguish and criticize the socioeconomic and cultural factors that influence a doctor's therapeutic decisions in order to increase adherence to treatment by the patient.

CC 2006 Health Ecology

Students will learn and properly apply basic strategies of ecology and its relation to health to establish mechanisms, appropriate methodologies and critical paths of environmental risks and those that are caused by anthropogenic activity itself, in order to establish disciplinary and thematic correlations required to improve health and well-being by stimulating individual and collective critical analysis, through social participation to improve their current and future life.

CC 2005 Infectious Diseases

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to understand and analyze the causal relationship of the pathogenic factors of bacteria , viruses, fungi, and parasites with the clinical manifestations of the most common infectious diseases through the analysis of the general characteristics of the agents causing disease (etiology), the pathophysiological mechanisms by which the disease takes hold (pathogenesis) and their morphological and clinical consequences, which will provide a basis for the care of patients with infectious diseases.