Teaching is one of the cornerstones which supports the high-quality medical care provided by CEMIC. Since its beginning, the institution has been deeply involved in graduate medical education, as evidenced by its association with the UBA- School of Medicine.

As a result of this association, CEMIC obtained the official recognition to create the Instituto Universitario CEMIC (IUC) by the end of 1997. The careers of Medicine, Cytotechnology, eleven specialization careers and four medical residences, based on the already existing ones, are developed at the IUC. The degrees granted by the Institute are valid all over the country.

The relationship between CEMIC and the UBA School of Medicine starts in 1958. Since then, the UBA medical students have attended the subject “Internal Medicine” at CEMIC, at the Teaching Department of Professor Norberto Quirno.

Then, in 1972, the Hospital Teaching Unit, which included the fourth, fifth and sixth year of the Medical Career, was created. In the sixth and last year, the internship had already been included.

In 1992, CEMIC is designated as Affiliated Hospital to the University of Buenos Aires – School of Medicine- and up to 1998 fifteen students from PLAN B per year attended the six years of the career. There was no need to pay for them.

In 1997, the government approved the creation of the IUC, which started the School of Medicine in 1998, with six specialization careers that soon became eleven. The careers are Pathology, Surgery, Nuclear Medicine, Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Pediatrics and Medical Urology.

From 1998 to 2000, the National Commission of University Evaluation and Accreditation (CONEAU) certified nine specialization careers taking into account the already established medical residences. In 1999, the first year of the graduate medical curriculum was launched at the IUC.

Since 2001, the IUC Medical Career has been certified by the CONEAU.

In 2002, the Academic Unit of the Research Department was created. In 2003, the two-year Cytotechnology career was created. CEMIC has given the preceding Cytotechnology Course for twenty years, with the support of the DAFACC and the government of the city of Buenos Aires.

At present, the IUC is in charge of the following curriculum:

• Medicine:
the IUC innovative curricula provide the graduate with:
- Updated theoretical knowledge with a sound basis derived from an evidence based medicine approach and training in Research Methodology.
- Skills and competences required to perform their best in their working fields.
- Attitudes to exercise their professional performance based on a bioethical, scientific-anthropologic, social and humanistic approach and their self-evaluation and continual medical education on the basis of an adequate training to have access to any available updated source of knowledge.

The graduate will be able to:
- Understand the process of health-disease from the biopsychosocial point of view and to carry out health promotion, disease prevention, emergency assistance, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of prevalent pathologies, and to identify not prevalent problems and solve them efficiently.
- Take into account the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses from the actions that the graduate will carry out.
- Commit themselves to the community problems, use the concepts of health primary care as strategies, implement sanitary programs, perform his expertise and take part in interdisciplinary teams of medical assistance.
- Understand the concept of health as an attainable, jointly binding and even-handed right of the population, administer resources and use the concepts of clinical epidemiology in the management of the doctor-patient-family-community relationship as a therapeutic tool and in the consideration of the patient’s emotional aspects as part of his everyday activities.
- Commit himself to the patient and the community and favor life respect, starting from his dedication to ethical, moral and legal principles.

• Cytotechnology:

The goal of the Course on Cytotechnology is to educate qualified cytotechnologists to recognize cellular abnormalities in samples from different organs and systems which make up the human body.

The curricula include all the updated aspects of cytology, which are the basis of pathologists’ performance in this field. This allows students to have the necessary information to become their assistants not only in everyday tasks but also in the more complex activities.

Students will also be trained with a moral and professional consciousness, not only receiving information but also reflecting and criticizing the analyzed concepts in an individual way.

Twenty-five per cent of the students that attend the above-mentioned careers have yearly renewable scholarships according to their academic performance.

Summary of part of the academic activity carried out between the year 1958 and 2008

Graduate careers
Medicine
·         1958 - 2003: 1,026 physicians did part of or the whole Buenos Aires University medical curriculum at CEMIC.
·         2004 - 5/31/08: 59 physicians received training at CEMIC University Institute (IUC).
Cytotechnology
·         1982 - 2002: 166 cytotechnologists received training at CEMIC.
·         2003 - 5/31/08: 28 cytotechnologists received training at IUC.
Nursing
·         1978 - 1997: 345 nursing auxiliaries received training at CEMIC.
·         1982 - 1999: 85 professional nurses received training at CEMIC.
Postgraduate careers 
·         1959 - 5/31/08: 803 professionals received training through the residencies.
·         1999 - 5/31/08: 134 specialist physicians graduated from IUC.
Postgraduate courses

• 2002 - 5/31/08: 140 postgraduate courses were carried out.