Within the objectives that the Catholic University of Temuco set for the coming years, is the incorporation of new careers that increase the range of professional alternatives that future higher education students have. Within the new meshes, the creation of the Medicine career is considered, which was announced as one of the priority objectives by the Rector of the UCT, Aliro Bórquez, in his last Public Account, developed in September 2022.
For this milestone, the university contemplates the construction of the new Prieto Norte Campus during the next three years, which will be located steps from the San Francisco Church. The construction will consider a nine-story building plus parking lots, which will house the future Medicine career, added to other branches of the health area, which will be a leap in quality in this matter for the year 2025.
That is why the highest university authority received representatives from the Municipality of Temuco and parliamentarians to present the new campus initiative. The milestone was developed to generate new links that go after future students in the health area of La Araucanía.
Strategic alliance.
After the meeting, the Rector of the UCT, Aliro Bórquez, highlighted the dialogue with the local municipality, pointing out that it is very important to generate new collaborations with public institutions in the area. “It has been very interesting to present to the municipality of Temuco our project that we will build soon in the Prieto Norte sector, which will attend to the training of students in the health area of our university and specifically of our Medicine career that will start in the year 2024” said.
For his part, José Mella, who was representing the mayor of Temuco, Roberto Neira, highlighted the project promoted by the university and mentioned that, “We have come to a very striking presentation by the Catholic University of Temuco, together with its Rector and the respective authorities, where they are showing us this immense project. In this sense, we want to work together, since as a municipality we try to move forward and seek strategic partners to be able to improve health care for the people who need it most.”.
It is important to point out that Senator Jaime Quintana also participated in the meeting, who relieved the role of the UCT to be at the forefront in the field of health and professional training. “We have been able to get to know this project presented by the university in depth and we are very happy, since UC Temuco is located within the universities (sic) with the most projection in Chile. At the same time, it is using artificial intelligence for a project (sic) that will directly benefit our region, since La Araucanía and the country increasingly need more doctors and more specialists.“, hill.
Without a doubt, this ambitious project is beginning to take its first steps, where it is expected to become a reality in the medium term, with the aim of providing a new quality alternative for the training and education of future generations of professionals from the 32 communes and the country.