Qualified Registration MEN: 3550 de 04 de Abril de 2019
Expiration date: 04 de Abril de 2026
SNIES: 107773
Number of Credits: 64
¿POR QUÉ ESTUDIAR MAESTRÍA EN EPIDEMIOLOGÍA?
Title
Master's degree in Epidemiology
Duration
4 Semesters
Modality
Face-to-face
Encounters
Biweekly
Worth
$42.982.100 + Estampilla 1%, aplica a valor matrícula sin descuento.

Meet our teaching staff
Master's degree in Epidemiology
Specialist in Health Management
Specialist in Financial Administration
Master in Public Health
Magíster en Epidemiologia
Master's degree in HIV Infection
Specialist in Epidemiology
Master's Degree in Territorial Studies
Specialist in Demographic Analysis Methods
- 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
Once the academic program is completed, the student is able to opt for the respective degree through the Legal Act called DEGREE.
- Having completed and passed all valid subjects and modules required by the respective program.
- Having obtained a total weighted average of no less than three point five (3.5).
- Cancel the graduation fees required by the University, pro-culture stamp, photocopy of Identity Documents enlarged to 150% and be up to date with all concepts, with the University.
- Not to be involved in a disciplinary process or to be serving a serious sanction.
- Having completed the practical work and application required by the program.
- Comply with all the specific requirements of each program in addition to the general, mandatory requirements, which must be made known in a timely manner.
SEMESTER I
- Epidemiología I
- Estadística Descriptiva y Herramientas Informáticas
- Introducción a la Salud Publica
- Seminario de Investigación I
- Socio Antropología de la Salud
SEMESTER II
- Demography
- Elective I
- Epidemiología II
- Inferential Statistics
- Seminario de Investigación II
- Sistemas de Salud y Seguridad Social
- Vigilancia Epidemiológica
SEMESTER III
- Comunicación y Educación en Salud
- Economía de la Salud
- Epidemiología Aplicada a los Servicios de Salud
- Elective II
- Métodos Estadísticos Avanzados I
- Seminario de Investigación III
- Sistemas de Información
SEMESTER IV
- Elective III
- Clinical Epidemiology
- write to publish
- Ethics and Bioethics
- Métodos Estadísticos Avanzados II
- Seminario de Investigación IV
- Registration form duly completed, signed and with photos attached.
- Proof of payment for registration fees.
- Photocopy of Graduation Certificate and Professional Title Diploma. (Or certification that the graduation requirements are pending for undergraduate students of our University who choose the Coterminal option).
- Official transcript of grades for the entire undergraduate degree program. (Not applicable if you are a graduate)
of our University). - Photocopy of ID card enlarged to 150%.
- Resume with supporting documents. (Additional academic training and
experience)
* Coterminal programs give undergraduate students at our university the opportunity to complete the first semester of a postgraduate program, whether a specialization or a master's degree, while finishing their undergraduate studies, fulfilling the graduation requirement to obtain their professional title and simultaneously advancing their postgraduate studies.
ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS FOREIGN APPLICANTS
- Photocopy of passport
- Undergraduate degree or its equivalent that accredits you as a professional must be validated by the Ministry of National Education of Colombia. All documents that are not in Spanish must be translated.
- . The certificates and the diploma must have the apostille stamp of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Entity in charge of this procedure in the country of origin.
REQUIRED ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION REGISTRATION FOR FOREIGNERS
- Photocopy of valid foreign identity card
- Photocopy of the current student visa
Important note! Los documentos exigidos para la inscripción deben ser enviados al correo de la Coordinación de Mercadeo Posgrados –
mercadeoposgrado@unisinucartagena.edu.co
El Magíster en Epidemiología egresado de la Universidad del Sinú, Seccional Cartagena podrá desempeñarse en las áreas de docencia, investigación y proyección social como:
- 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.
The final project of a Master's degree is a thesis, which is an individual work that aims to develop the student's skills in knowledge research or artistic creation to formulate and solve disciplinary, interdisciplinary artistic or professional problems, through academic argumentation, the use of instruments and the processes of research and creation.
All final degree projects for Postgraduate programs must comply with the rules and guidelines set out in the protocol for degree projects.
Everything related to the intellectual property of the original results obtained by the student in their final work or thesis must be in accordance with the provisions of national and international laws and the statutes of the University.
No student may receive a degree while under disciplinary probation or with outstanding financial obligations to the Institution.
- Resume: 60%
- Interview: 40%
TOTAL 100%
Program Manager
Dr. Lindsay Peinado Valencia
Nurse, Master of Education, clinical experience in hospital and outpatient settings: rural health commission in Puerto Inírida, local hospital in Cartagena de Indias and Renacer Foundation in Cartagena, research professor (Ministry of Science)
Program Coordinator
Dr. Eliana Patricia Carrillo Diaz
Registered Nurse, Certified Public Accountant. Specialist in Quality Management and Auditing in Health. Professor in the Care Management Area of the Nursing Program and Nursing to the Individual, Family, and Community. Postgraduate Coordinator for the Nursing Program.


