Graduates of the Medicine program at Universidad de Las Américas become primary care physicians with a comprehensive and holistic education, grounded in rigorous training in the basic sciences, preclinical studies, and clinical and surgical disciplines. This preparation equips graduates to assume professional roles in delivering individualized healthcare with a global perspective and a strong commitment to advancing the medical profession.
Furthermore, graduates deliver basic clinical and surgical care for common and high-priority health conditions affecting individuals and their families by integrating the best available medical evidence into their professional practice. This is done in accordance with national healthcare protocols and evidence-based medicine while incorporating intercultural, interprofessional, and interdisciplinary perspectives, along with principles of gender equity, human rights, and the rational use of healthcare resources. Graduates can manage the dynamic health-disease process in accordance with primary healthcare strategies at all levels of care. This involves applying critical thinking, following appropriate referral and counter-referral procedures, and actively participating in health promotion, disease prevention, curative care, patient recovery, and rehabilitation. Likewise, graduates respond effectively and efficiently to urgent and emergency medical situations and participate in research initiatives.
Finally, graduates are expected to practice responsibly, demonstrating ethics, social commitment, and empathy towards patients. Graduates are prepared to work in both public and private healthcare systems within the country, as well as in international hospital settings. Graduates are encouraged to pursue postgraduate education and contribute to health development processes, utilizing their medical expertise to address the most pressing local, regional, and global health challenges.
Demographic Data - provides information about student enrollment disaggregated by gender and ethnicity, offering insight into the demographic diversity within the program.
Student Completion - provides information about retention and graduation rates calculated through the 2021–2022 academic year, based on cohorts of new, first-time students entering the program in the fall semester, regardless of enrollment in the daytime or evening instructional delivery (if applicable). These calculations exclude incoming transfer students. Specifically, retention rates are reported at one-year and two-year intervals.
In addition, graduation rates are calculated according to each program’s duration length (100%) and within 150% of the normal time for a bachelor’s degree. Gender-based graduation data reflects only the distribution of actual graduates within each cohort and does not consider the original gender composition of the entering group.
Scholarship Information - provides information about student financial support, with data disaggregated by the type of scholarship awarded.
Geographic Data - provides information about the geographic composition of students enrolled in the program, based on place of origin.
Additional Demographic Data - provides information about students’ marital status, disability status, and first-generation college attendance.
All programs utilize the Brightspace platform to collect and assess student work and to compile data and evidence of student achievement. The resulting outcomes and their analysis, which focus on identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent assessment period for each Program Learning Outcome (PLO) is indicated, along with the percentage representing the level of achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, based on the rubric used to evaluate student work.
Note: Multiple descriptions per PLO code reflect updates over time. All versions are shown to support historical and comparative analysis.