The Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine (in Spanish: Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, EMIS) of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education commonly shortened as Monterrey Institute of Technology or Monterrey Tech is one of the largest private, nonsectarian and coeducational multi-campus universities in...

 (ITESM) is a prestigious private medical school

Medical school

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 founded in 1978 in Monterrey

Monterrey

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, Mexico

Mexico

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, in order to provide medical education, training and to promote reliable biomedical investigation in Mexico with the support of the ITESM research infrastructure. According to the National Association of School and Faculties of Medicine of Mexico (Asociación Nacional de Facultades y Escuelas de Medicina, ANFEM) the school is the third best medical school in the country .

The Tec de Monterrey School of Medicine is home to about 504 M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

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 students and to 105 postgraduate students. Apart from the M.D. program, the School of Medicine also offers a joint M.D.-Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 program with Texas A&M Health Science Center, and other studies such as Bachelor in Nursery, Bachelor in Dietetics and a degree in Biomedical Engineering. The graduate department of the Tec de Monterrey School of Medicine offers to its students various medical specialties including general surgery, ophthalmology, psychiatry

Psychiatry

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, anatomical pathology

Anatomical pathology

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, internal medicine

Internal medicine

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, anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynaecology

Obstetrics and gynaecology

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, radiology

Radiology

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 and pediatrics

Pediatrics

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. The department also offers a postgraduate program in medical sciences and biotechnology

Biotechnology

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