Rotating internships are the final stage of the career, in which students acquire technical skills and knowledge required to secure optimal exercise of the profession in a supervised environment.
Procedures and Institutions
Internships will take place at public and private medical facilities, both local and international, approved by the University’s Academic Board and that hold educational affiliation agreements with the Medical School. Agreements must be previously communicated to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT). Core mandatory areas to be covered by students during monthly internships are: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Obstetrics & Gynecology, General Surgery, Family and Community Medicine.
The Dean of Health Sciences and the Director of the Medical School may allow students to do an internship in a different program endorsed by the Faculty, as long as the hospital has an agreement with the Medical School and is certified by the Ministry of Public Health.
Students who desire to do the internship at a medical center outside the Dominican Republic, must have the required cumulative GPA and request written permission by the Dean of Health Sciences, via the Director of the Medical School, listing the program he/she will take part in. A letter of acceptance of internship at a desired Hospital, from the Medical Director of the Center and the person responsible for Clinical Sciences Coordination must be attached to the request. The Family and Community Medicine cycle, however, must be completed at a local health facility as established by MESCyT.
The William J. Harrington Program
On Friday, March 10th, 2017, O&M Medical School (O&Med), signed a collaboration agreement with the Harrington Program of the University of Miami, Florida, USA, giving our students the opportunity to rotate for internal medicine and critical care, as well as pediatrics and surgical specialties at the Jackson Memorial Hospital facilities. Since 1967 this program has given the opportunity to international medical students and physicians from Latin America and the Caribbean, to observe clinical and surgical procedures at this well-known hospital in Florida.
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Hospital Pediatrico Dr. Hugo Mendoza
O&Med signed a collaboration agreement with this prestigious institution, located in the east part of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, giving our students the opportunity to rotate for ambulatory areas of pediatrics and its sub-specialties, including neonatal critical care unit and infectious diseases.
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Hospital General Regional Dr. Marcelino Velez Santana
O&Med signed an agreement with the Hospital General Regional Dr. Marcelino Velez Santana, a tertiary level health center, to allow our medical students to rotate for different clinical areas, including OBGYN, internal medicine and critical care, pediatrics and surgery.
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CEPROSH
O&Med signed an agreement with the Center for the Promotion and Human Solidarity (CEPROSH), a private non-profit community service organization under the protection of Law No. 122-05, inaugurated in 1988, and amended in 1996 with Decree 375-96, located in Calle Professor Juan Bosch No. 52, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. This alliance allows our students to interact with patients of high vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases (GLBT, men who have sex with men, migrants, etc.), due to their probability of being exposed to structural violence in rural and urban areas place at the in-country side of the Dominican Republic.
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Hospital Dr. Salvador B. Gautier
O&Med signed an agreement with the Hospital Dr. Salvador B. Gautier, giving our students the opportunity to rotate for different clinical and surgical areas, including psychiatry, internal medicine and surgery.
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Hospital Dr. Ney Arias Lora
O&Med signed an agreement with the Hospital Dr. Ney Arias Lora, located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to allow our students to rotate for different surgical specialties areas, including neurosurgery, plastic surgery and cardiothoracic surgery.
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