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Medical and Health Sciences

Sub-Discipline

Health Sciences

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

  • City: Santiago,
  • Commune: Santiago,
  • Region: Metropolitan Region
goals

To train postgraduate students with scientific research skills in the clinical field, thereby increasing the scientific capacity of health science professionals in Chile. To stimulate interdisciplinary integration in the creation of knowledge in the health field. To facilitate the integration of scientific research with clinical needs in the health field. To promote ethical considerations in research involving human subjects.

Applicant Profile

The program is aimed at Chilean and foreign professionals in the health sciences and related fields who hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree or an equivalent professional university degree obtained from a university recognized by the State of Chile, or, in the case of foreign institutions, by the State of the corresponding country. Candidates must pass the selection process.

Graduate profile

Graduates of the Master's Program in Health Sciences Research are professionals capable of: (a) Integrating theories and models of reflection regarding the principles and values that must be respected when conducting research in and with human beings, valuing and appropriately integrating their diversity and cultural aspects. (b) Detecting and approaching diseases from a comprehensive perspective that includes basic, social, and clinical sciences. (c) Developing proposals for the methodological development of a research project based on the formulation of clinical questions, which allow for the identification and proposal of interdisciplinary solutions to local health problems. (d) Incorporating the most widely used statistical techniques in scientific research in Health Sciences, applying them to a dataset using statistical software, interpreting the results of an analysis, and integrating these elements as steps of the scientific method, valuing the method as the way in which science generates new knowledge. (e) Analyzing relevant, critical, or controversial aspects of specific diseases or pathological conditions and the biological and psychosocial processes involved in them.

Lines of investigation

Clinical and translational research.

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Contact

magister.medicina@uc.cl

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