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The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Faculty of Medicine in Bogotá, Colombia is one of the leading...

The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Faculty of Medicine in Bogotá, Colombia is one of the leading medical schools in Colombia and Latin America. Its structure lies within the campus of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and most practise takes place at its university hospital, the San Ignacio. Through the last 67 years the faculty has been home to many remarkable Colombian physicians and scientists known locally and internationally. In 1942 the faculty start working in a building of San Bartolomé Mayor school. In 1952 the Hospital Universitario San Ignacio (HUSI) was under construction, in the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana campus, and eventually the faculty office was moved there. The administrative structure of the faculty is structured into many dependencies, responding to the university's Academic and University Medium directives. The faculty of medicine- as every other faculty in the university- runs a dual deanship structure, allowing for an academic dean to handle issues regarding the academic structure (curriculum, medical staff, hospital liaisons), and a University medium dean to handle issues of clinical and social ethics, student and staff welfare, among