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The
Medic's Guide Book
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MEXICO
 Population:
94 million
Language: Spanish
Capital: Mexico City
Currency: Mexican new peso
Int Code: +52
There are two main
healthcare institutions; the Mexican
Institute of Social Security (IMSS) which has recently been privatized,
and the Institute of Social Service
and Security for State Employees (ISSSTE). ISSSTE is the public welfare
system and is government-funded.
Visas and work permits:
The Embassy states that students need a Student Entry Permit requiring:
c Passport (valid for more than one year)
c Application form completed
c Letter of acceptance from a
University in Mexico
c Letter indicating you can fund
yourself (minimum US$500/month)
c Photographs (six full-face and
five right-side profile)
You have to go personally to
the Consular Office to sign and fingerprint the entry document.
Working
in Mexico: Obtaining a
visa for short-term work (less than six months) is extremely difficult. If
you have an offer of work from a Mexican Institute they should apply to the
immigration authorities in Mexico City to issue a working visa. This can
take some time. Contact the Mexican embassy for more details.
Useful
Address:
The
International Relations Department of the Health Ministry:
Secretaría de Salud, Dirección General de Asuntis se Asuntos
Internacionales, Dr Rafael Alvarez Cordero, Director General, Francisco P
Miranda No 177–4o piso 06100 Mexico, DF Tel: +52 5 651 0828 Fax: 5 583
0833 www.ssa.gob.mx
Mexican Medical Association: Asociación
Nacional de Colegios, Médicos Estatales Rosalio Bustamante No 224, Col.
Esfuerzo nacional, CD, Madero, Tams CP 89470 Tel: +52 12 17 03 88 Fax: 12 13
19 69
Mexican Nurses Association: Colegio nacional de Enfermeras AC, Czda
Obrero Mundial 229, Cal del Valle, Apartado Postal 12-986, 03100 México DF
Tel: +52 5 543 6637 Fax: 5 669 4031
Mexican Dental Associtaion: Asociación Dental Mexicana AC, Ezequiel
Montes No 92, Col. Revolución, Delegación Cuahternoc, mexico 06030 DF Tel:
+52 555666133
THE MAIN MEDICAL SCHOOLS:
Mexico
City
Escuela
Nacional de Medicina y Homeopatia, (Instituto
Politécnico Nacional (ENMyH)), Arroyo de Guadelupe No 239,
Fraccionamiento ‘La Escalera’, Colonia Ticomán, 07320 México Tel: +52
5 586 9449, Fax: 5 586 5524 www.ipn.mx
Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana, División de Ciencias
Biológicas y de la Saud, Unidad Zochimilco, Calzada del Hueso No 1100,
Colonia Villa Quietud, Delegación Coyoacán, 04960 México 21. Tel: +52 5
483 7200, Fax: 5 483 7200 www.cueyatl.uam.mx
Universidad
La Salle, Escuela Mexicana de Medicina,
Fuentes 31, Tlalpan, Apartado Postal 22271, 14000 México Tel: +52 5 606
2657, Fax: 5 606 3157 www.ulsa.mx
Universidad
National Autónoma de México, Facultad de
Medicina, Ciudad Universitaria, México 20. Tel: +52 5 616 1162, Fax: 5 616
1616 www.facmed.unam.mx
(This is the oldest and probably the largest medical school in Mexico,
founded in 1572.)
Other medical schools:
Universidad
Autónoma de Baja California, Escuela de
Medicina, Calle los Misioneros, Centro Civico Comercial de Mexicali, 21000
Mexicali, Baja California Norte Tel: +52 65 571 622 Fax: 65 572 658 www.facmed.unam.mx
Universidad
Autónoma ‘Benito Juárez’ de Oxaca,
Escuela de Medicina y Cirugía, Calzada Porfirio Díaz, Oxaca de Juárez,
Oxaca Tel: +52 951 530 58 Fax: 951
530 58 www.uabjo.mx
Universidad
Autónoma de Chihuahua, Facultad de Medicina,
Avenida Colón y Rosales, Apartado Postal 1090, Chihuahua 31350 Tel: +52 14
152 059 Fax: 14 152 543 www.uach.mx
Universidad
Autónoma de Coahuila, Escuela de Medicina,
Francisco Murguia Sur No. 205, 25000 Saltillo, Coahuila Tel: +52 84 128 095
Fax: 84 128 095 www.uadec.mx
Universidad
de Guadalajara, Facultad de Medicina, Centro Médico,
Colonia Independencia, Guadalajara, Jalisco 44340 Tel: +52 3 617 5022 Fax: 3
617 5506 www.udg.mx
Universidad
de Guanajuato, Facultad de Medicina de León,
20 de Enero 929, Leon, CP 37320 Tel: +52 47 148 455, Fax: +52 47 142 522 www.ugto.mx
Universidad
Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Medicina,
Hospital Universitario "Dr. José E. Gonzales", Av. Francisco I
Madero al Poniente y Gonzalitos, Monterrey, N.L. 64460 Tel: +52 83 294 153
Fax: 83 485 477 www.medicina.uanl.mx
Universidad
Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Facultad de Medicina,
Centro Universitario Tampico Madero, Apartado Postal C-33, 89339 Tampico,
Veracruz, Tel: +52 12 270 576 Fax: 12 270 586 www.uat.mx
Universidad
de Yucatán, Facultad de Medicina, Avenida Itzáez
No. 498, Apartado Postal 1225, Mérida, Yucatán 97000 Tel: +52 99 240 554
Fax: 99 233 297 www.uady.mx
Universidad
Juáeez del Estado de Durango, Escuela de
Medicina Humana, Avenida Universidad y Fanny Anitúa, Apartado Postal 229,
34000 Durango Tel: +52 18 121 779 Fax: 18 130 527 www.ujed.mx
Universidad
Valle del Bravo, Escuela de Medicina, Hospital
Universitario, Calle Septima y Rio Mante, Colonia Longoria, Ciudad Reynosa,
Tamaulipas 88700 Tel: +52 89 234 722 Fax: 89 239 447
Universidad
Veracruzana, Facultad de Medicina, Sedán e
Iturbide, Hidalgo Carrillo Puerto, Ciudad Mendoza, Ver. 94740 Tel: +52 272
63 309 Fax: 272 71 209 www.uv.mx
RURAL WORK:
Programa
de Ampliacion de Cobertura (PAC), Jurisdiccion,
Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico
PAC is an initiative
founded in 1996 by the Mexican Secretariat of Health to take basic health
services and health education to the most isolated indigenous communities of
the country. The initiative started in just one state (Veracruz). From a
base in the city of Orizaba, ten ‘modules’, each consisting of about 6
individuals – doctors, nurses, dentists and social workers, disperse each
Monday morning to their own substation, often many hours’ drive up into
the mountains.
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