Graduate Profile
Believe in the microscopic beauty of the smallest worlds, but indispensable to human life!
As a Bacteriologist at UCM you will have the skills to intervene in the relationships between the ecosystem and the human being. You will be able to understand the influence that microorganisms have on their development, through the collection and processing of samples from humans, animals, plants, industry and the environment.
You will have the ability to distinguish and select methods, techniques, analysis, correlation and interpretation of the results obtained with ethical, scientific and technological criteria, applied to the diagnosis, control and evaluation of different health conditions, actively participating in health promotion and disease prevention, leading and accompanying public health management and the administration of your professional area.
Areas in which you can work:
- Human Clinic: Provides assistance in the different states of health/disease through sampling, processing, selection of methods, analysis, correlation, interpretation and reporting of the results framed in current standards of quality management programs, to contribute to timely and accurate diagnoses, prognoses, controls and evaluations of the individual and the community.
- Veterinary clinic: To provide assistance by taking, processing, analyzing samples, correlating and interpreting results to help establish control and prevention measures, avoiding the spread and economic losses due to morbidity, mortality and decreased production of animal species.
- Phytopathology: Provide assistance through sample collection, processing, analysis, correlation and interpretation of results to contribute to the diagnosis, control and evaluation of different plant pathologies.
- Forensic medicine: Assisting in the collection, processing, analysis of samples, correlation and interpretation of results to contribute to the clarification of crimes through chemical, toxicological, genetic and molecular biology tests.
- Food industry: Performs specific physical-chemical, microbiological and sensory tests complying with regulatory standards and applying the set of actions aimed at ensuring the health and safety of food.
- Biotechnology: Applies laboratory methods and techniques at the research level in order to implement the use of microorganisms capable of transforming useful substrates for humans and the ecosystem, as well as the development of new products useful in industry.
- Administration: Manages the provision of health services in the health care and public health areas, with ethical, scientific, social and technological criteria.
Internships
Upon completion of all your courses in the Bacteriology program, you will have a broad knowledge and skills to study and analyze microorganisms, cells and biological fluids, thus, you will be able to diagnose, control and evaluate their relationship with humans, animals and the ecosystem. For this reason, as a student you will begin a process of internships in public or private sector organizations that you will perform during an academic period in which you will strengthen all the knowledge and learning you acquired during the career.
In which sectors will you be able to do your internship?
- Health institutions
- Research centers
- Food industry
- Animal and plant diagnostic centers
- National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences
- Higher Education Institutions
Social contribution of the program
Thanks to UCM's comprehensive training and social focus, the Bacteriology program prioritizes your personal, social and collaborative development as a student, guiding you in the search for solutions to environmental problems related to emerging and re-emerging diseases that increase due to socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions harmful to the ecosystem.
For this reason, the program meets the social needs and demands derived from scientific and technological advances that give rise to new scenarios for the work performance of the bacteriologist in which he/she contributes his/her scientific knowledge, knowledge of the environment and the appropriate reading of reality to make diagnoses, prognoses, controls and evaluations of the different health conditions of the individual and the community in general.
These are some of the projects that UCM has supported:
- Accompanying the elderly, children and families to strengthen healthy habits.
- Health promotion and disease prevention with the different family groups in the communities.
- Participation in interdisciplinary and service workshops to develop community mobilization strategies to improve people's quality of life.
