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 this course, students will be able to explain the origin and meaning of the signs and symptoms that make up the most common syndromes and diseases in order to develop a more structured and systematic symptomatology and examination that allow them to integrate more efficient etiologic, nosologic, and functional diagnoses. All of this will be achieved through the attendance of lectures, participation in seminars on problematized clinical cases, additional research and practices in the Simulation and Virtual Medical Education laboratory.

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.

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to review and analyze the principles and foundations of the practice of Thanatology within the practice of general medicine in order to have tools to help terminally ill patients at the time of their death and detect and address common situations related to family behavior in the face of death.

After completing this course, students will know and identify the principles and practice of environmental toxicology and its relation to health to establish mechanisms, appropriate methodologies, and critical paths of toxicological risks and its impact on health, in order to establish preventive measures to care for the disease resulting from exposure to such risks .

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.