At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to apply the methods and techniques of public health that relate to epidemiology, statistics and health systems in order to act for health through the interaction between man and his environment, both the individual and community levels. Additionally, they will be able to understand the fundamental principles of public health based on their capacity to plan, organize, and manage collective efforts with the aim of establishing an organized response aiming for the protection, promotion and restoration of the population's health.

At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to diagnose and treat the most common medical and medical-surgical emergencies, i.e. unexpected clinical situations that endanger a patient's life, physiological systems, or physical integrity. The above is for the purpose of working in the clinical field of medicine, ensuring the health and quality of life of people. This will be achieved through practice with patients when on duty in the hospital wards.

At the conclusion of the course, students will develop and implement important changes in the habits and customs of the people in their physical, psychological, and social milieu, as well as in the manner in which comprehensive medical servicesare provided and received, respecting their culture and taking into consideration the available resources in order to solve major health problems that affect the community, proving to be a individuals who are responsible for their society and committed to their profession and the health of human beings.

At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to prevent and manage comprehensively the most frequent diseases at primary-care level. They will also demonstrate critical judgment to refer cases which are beyond their resolving capacity to another level of care. The aim of this is for the students to develop an attitude toward clinical medicine oriented to the optimization of health care resources. This will be achieved through readings, discussions and practice obtained in clinical rotations.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyze concepts related to quality and safety in health care in order to apply them in their practice as medical students and later as health care professionals for the benefit of patients.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.