The academic offer will be dictated jointly, between the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of the Northeast (UNNE) and the Argentine Diabetes Society (SAD).
Its purpose is to train professionals in the area of health, appropriate to the needs of each region in whose competence both the acquisition of scientific and technological skills and knowledge are valued, as well as the development of critical thinking and ethical skills and community service. .
71 students were rigorously selected by the academic council according to their scores and academic background for this course and 100 remain at the door waiting for a second cohort.
They led the opening ceremony held last Friday in the “Centennial of the University Reform” academic development room of the Faculty; the Minister of Public Health of the province of Corrientes Dr. Ricardo Cardozo, the rector of the National University of the Northeast Dr. Gerardo Omar Larroza, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine Professor Mario German Pagno, the graduate secretary Dr. Mónica Auchter, the president of the Argentine Diabetes Society Dr. Silvia Gorban de Lapertosa, and the director of the race, Magister Dr. Victor Commendatore.
“It is the first professional master’s degree between a scientific society and a public university,” said Dr. Silvia Lapertosa in some part of her speech, who also commented on the training course they have been carrying out, prior to the master’s degree, such as courses and diplomas .
In this regard, the figure of the current Rector of the UNNE highlighted: “I want to thank Dr. Omar Larroza, whom we respect, love and admire, because he had the vision to open the doors for us and give us the strength to move forward and achieve this agreement and others, without any type of bureaucratic impediments and made the teaching and non-teaching staff available to the Association”, he said.
Likewise, the Minister of Public Health of Corrientes, Dr. Ricardo Cardozo, expressed his satisfaction and joy for this event, which he described as a brilliant and historic initiative of the Faculty of Medicine of UNNE and the Argentine Society of Diabetes SAD,, this postgraduate career that comes to improve the training of many professionals academically, but also in healthcare, in our province and in the respective provinces that participate.
He also added: “For us, diabetes is a pathology that we regard as very important, the incidence that it has not only on mortality but also on morbidity, on the consequences and sequelae that diabetes brings and, therefore, all the investment what the state, public health, has to do to be able to care for them and to be able to recover these patients”.
He also stressed the importance of serious and important institutions in society being linked and working in an articulated manner, so that the results are more strengthened and in this sense he ratified the National University of the Northeast and the Faculty of Medicine, that the doors of the ministry are open to continue working together.
It should be noted that the different speakers, in their respective turns, emphasized the effort and cooperation between the institutions, the will of each one of the people and authorities, thanked everyone for their presence and the teachers from different parts of the country.
A little history
It should be noted that since its inception the presidency of the Sociedad Argentita de Diabetes, was occupied by prominent professionals and currently this function is in charge of Dr., Silvia Lapertosa, who is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Notional University of the Northeast .
Diabetology in Argentina was born in the first half of the 20th century under the influence of two highly valued medical personalities, doctors Bernardo Houssey and Pedro Escudero.
During these years, the SAD has developed a continuous and fruitful educational activity, creating in 1975 a training school from which more than two hundred highly trained professionals have graduated, both in Argentina and in many Latin American countries.
Due to the social changes of recent years and in relation to the new trends in education, this initial structure was transformed in 2019, working together with the UNNE, into two complementary hierarchical educational instances; the initial and advanced higher diplomas in diabetes, which together comprise 480 hours of intense theoretical-practical work with the particularity of having practice centers in different prestigious institutions in different cities of the country. Counting in each of these with highly trained specialized teachers. The educational staggering in development makes necessary a superior instance that is expected to be achieved with the SAD-UNNE diabetes teacher.