MEN Qualified Registration: Resolution 3550 of April 4, 2019. Qualified registration expiration date April 4, 2026

Mission

The Mission of the Master's Degree in Epidemiology at the Universidad del Sinú seeks to train professionals with technical, human, administrative, analytical and innovation skills in the area of epidemiology, competent for efficient performance, with social and ethical commitment in the clinical, investigative, educational, social and political that allows you to contribute to the resolution of health problems and needs with a holistic view of the human being and of the processes related to health in the individual and in the population.

Vision

By the year 2025, the Master's in Epidemiology of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Sinú will be recognized as a program with high quality and academic excellence, comprehensive training of professionals in Epidemiology at the regional, national and international levels, committed with research, education and social projection, with a spirit of responsibility, high ethical values in the qualified provision of the service to contribute to the development and well-being of the community in the health situation in which they find themselves and in the social and environment in which they are immersed evidenced by the impact of their graduates on the environment.

TITLE TO ISSUEMAGISTER IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
DURATION4 Semesters
ADMISSION PERIODBiannual
METHODOLOGYFace-to-face
REG. QUALIFIED MENResolution 3550 of April 4, 2019. Qualified registration expiration date April 4, 2026
SNIES107773
ACADEMIC CREDITS64
TOTAL REGISTRATION VALUE$55.211.000  + 1% Valor Estampilla Distrital Procultura
FRECUENCIA DE CLASES Y HORARIOS Encuentros son quincenales, Viernes de 4 a 8 pm, Sábados de 8 a.m. a 12:00 m y de 2:00 pm a 6:00 p.m
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Addressed to

Professionals from the Health Area, interested in completing their training and deepening their knowledge of Epidemiology.

Professional profile

  • Contribute to a greater propagation and democratization of culture in our environment, fostering the formation of an individual with a universal projection that at the same time represents the cultural and human values of the Colombian man.

  • It will train professionals capable of generating, creating, innovating proposals with a sufficient scientific and epidemiological basis where they work; making them participants in the intersectoral and interdisciplinary work processes in the epidemiological area of Public Health, builder of the analysis of the health-disease process in the regional and national context, which generate better conditions of quality of life and health of the populations

  • Train capable professionals within the field of science, technology and culture to serve the development of the region and the country, basically taking into account the integral formation of man and his own fulfillment as such

Occupational profile

The Master in Epidemiology A graduate of the Universidad del Sinú will be able to work in the areas of teaching, research and social projection such as:

  • Epidemiologist in entities such as official, private and social security health services.
  • As an advisor to regulatory entities of the health sector in relation to the analysis of the state of health, the formulation of intervention policies and the evaluation of the quality of the provision of said services.
  • As coordinator and/or advisor of epidemiological surveillance systems.
  • As a director in administrative positions, at the strategic or managerial level of the various health institutions.
  • As Director, Advisor or Member of interdisciplinary health teams.
  • The Epidemiologist may also be a clinician, whose greatest interest will be the application of the epidemiological method in teaching, research or daily practice.
  • Director of health observatories at national or international level.
  • Leader of research groups
  • Member, advisor in programs or networks of cooperation in health at national and international level.
  • Professor in undergraduate and postgraduate programs in related training areas
  • Director of multicenter studies of evaluation of therapies and treatments.

Competencies

Related to Being

  • communicate effectively
  • Work effectively as a member of a team and perform the role necessary to constructively contribute to the accomplishment of tasks by the group (including leading).
  • Promote collaborations, partnerships, and teamwork to achieve the goals of the epidemiology program.
  • Develop community partnerships to support epidemiological investigations.
  • Mutual identification of shared interests, opposed or different from those of the other parties, to achieve good collaborations and manage conflicts.
  • Respect and abide by the ethical principles related to data protection and confidentiality in relation to any information obtained as part of the professional activity.

Related to Knowledge

  • It recognizes the human being as the nucleus of the epidemiological process, as a multidimensional being in which factors other than the biological converge and that affect their level of well-being.
  • Recognizes the health-disease process as a dynamic and complex cycle.
  • Understand and analyze documents on public health policy
  • Identify effective public health promotion measures for specific problems.
  • Identify appropriate public health prevention measures for specific problems.
  • Evaluate the impact of an intervention on the health of the population.
  • Measure health outcomes to guide decision-making for the prevention strategy.
  • Identify an appropriate public health intervention based on surveillance data
  • Identify sources of information about potential threats to public health.
  • Identify surveillance data needs for public health threat risk assessments.
  • Interpret the trends of episodes related to diseases and public health from the analysis of time series.

  • Identify the results of surveillance data analyzes and draw conclusions.
  • Evaluate surveillance systems.
  • Recognize the need for a new surveillance system and establish it.
  • Know the laws on surveillance and notification of communicable diseases
  • Interpret the diagnosis and the epidemiological significance of reports relating to laboratory tests.
  • Know the different methods of diagnosis and classification.
  • Describe the outbreak in terms of person, place, and time.
  • Recommend appropriate evidence-based measures to control the outbreak.
  • Identify the different tools provided by the Epidemiological method to learn about health-related events.
  • Know the design and application of the different types of epidemiological studies.
  • Know and interpret the appropriate statistical techniques that allow answering questions regarding the health-disease process at an individual and collective level.

Do-Related

  • Use current knowledge in disease epidemiology to guide the practice of public health and epidemiology.
  • Provide contributions in the field of epidemiology to develop relevant and measurable objectives for public health programs.
  • Use the knowledge of sociological and cultural factors of the population of a specific nature, in order to carry out studies and recommend actions in matters of public health pertinent to the affected community.
  • Implementing public health programs: translating public health policy into practice
  • Carry out risk assessments: check, with a critical mind, if there is a public health problem, and describe its magnitude.
  • Use the results of evaluations of program progress toward goals and outcomes to further plan and modify the program.
  • Design and manage a surveillance system.
  • Perform a descriptive analysis of surveillance data.
  • Use episode-based surveillance, also called "epidemic intelligence," to detect threats to health.
  • Create a case definition and adjust it as necessary during the investigation.
  • Generate hypotheses about the causes and/or risk factors of the outbreak.
  • Carry out an analytical epidemiological investigation to identify the focus.
  • Present reports and results of an investigation.
  • Write a study protocol using research techniques appropriate to the public health problem.
  • Carry out epidemiological studies.
  • Communicate and present the results of a study.
  • Recommend evidence-based interventions to respond to the
  • epidemiological observations.
  • Write the report of an epidemiological investigation for those responsible at the decision-making level.
  • Write an article for a scientific journal.
  • Write a summary.
  • Write a press release.
  • Prepare documents, reports, letters, minutes of meetings, etc.
  • Apply the relevant legislation to the collection, management and dissemination of data and the use of information.
  • Apply basic concepts of probability
  • Calculate and interpret point estimates and confidence intervals of measures of central tendency and dispersion.
  • Calculate and interpret point estimates and confidence intervals of disease frequency measurements
  • Calculate and interpret point estimates and confidence intervals of association and impact measurements.
  • Calculate and interpret significance tests.
  • Use database software packages to enter and manage data.
  • It uses the different statistical techniques and tools applied to epidemiology in the analysis of a study event (association measures, statistical significance tests and logistic regression).
  • Draw conclusions from the results of the analyses.
  • Design studies to measure health inequalities applying modern measurement techniques (Ginni coefficient, Lorenz concentration curve, range differences, etc.).

Proceso de Admisión

Send your documents to the email: secadmisions@unisinucartagena.edu.co

Applicants must submit the following documents as registration requirements.

  • Application for admission duly filled out with the photos pasted in the corresponding place
  • Photocopy of Diploma and Certificate of undergraduate degree
  • Undergraduate Transcripts
  • Copy of Identity document.
  • Three (3) passport size photos.
  • Resume With Supports.
  • Essay in which you argue your motivation to start this training process.

 

      ** The CV must contain:

    • Support for academic and complementary training
    • Work experience certificates
    • Second Language Certification
    • Result of the Higher Education Quality Examinations or Saber PRO (Compulsory to graduates since 2003)

 

Interview

  • The date information for the interview will be sent with the confirmation of the acceptance of the Registration documents.
  • The Interview will be held virtually.
  • RESEARCH PROPOSAL: See (PRESENTATION OF MASTER'S RESEARCH PROPOSALS)
  • SELECTION PARAMETERS: SCALE 1-100
    – Resume 50%
    – Admission Interview 25%
    – Research Proposal 25%
    – TOTAL 100%

STUDY PLAN

CATALOG_NCRSE_IDCOURSEH. STATION CONTCREDITS
10001MEPCG108269EPIDEMIOLOGÍA I484
10002MEPCG108270DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS AND COMPUTER TOOLS363
10003MEPCG108271INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH363
10004MEPCG108272RESEARCH SEMINAR I242
10005MEPCG108273SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF HEALTH121
  TOTAL15613
CATALOG_NCRSE_IDCOURSEH. STATION CONTCREDITS
10008MEPCG108276DEMOGRAPHY242
10011MEPCG 108279ELECTIVE I242
10006MEPCG108274EPIDEMIOLOGY II484
10007MEPCG108275INFERENTIAL STATISTICS363
10009MEPCG108277RESEARCH SEMINAR II242
10010MEPCG108278HEALTH AND SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEMS242
10020MEPCG108288EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE363
  TOTAL21618
CATALOG_NCRSE_IDCOURSEH. STATION CONTCREDITS
10017MEPCG108285COMMUNICATION AND HEALTH EDUCATION121
10016MEPCG108284HEALTH ECONOMICS242
10014MEPCG108282EPIDEMIOLOGY APPLIED TO HEALTH SERVICES484
10018MEPCG108286ELECTIVE II242
10012MEPCG108280ADVANCED STATISTICAL METHODS I484
10015MEPCG108283RESEARCH SEMINAR III363
10013MEPCG108281INFORMATION SYSTEMS242
  Total Semester216.018.0
CATALOG_NCRSE_IDCOURSEH. STATION CONTCREDITS
10023MEPCG108291ELECTIVE III 242
10019MEPCG108287CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY484
10025MEPCG108293WRITE TO PUBLISH121
10022MEPCG108290ETHICS AND BIOETHICS121
10021MEPCG108289ADVANCED STATISTICAL METHODS II484
10024MEPCG108292RESEARCH SEMINAR IV363
  Total Semester180.015.0
  Total Pensum768.064.0

Options Elective I:

  • Qualitative methods and triangulation
  • Informatics Statistical packages

Options Elective II:

  • Methodology for measuring inequalities in health
  • Evaluation of health interventions and policies

Options Elective III:

  • Mathematical modeling of Epidemics
  • Meta-analysis – Systematic review

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