Escuela Médico Militar

The Escuela Médico Militar is a medical school of the Mexican army and Mexican air force for medical training. The school is located in Mexico City, Mexico.

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History

The school was founded as Escuela Constitucionalista Médico Militar by Generals Guadalupe Gracia García-Cumplido and Enrique Cornelio Osornio Martínez de los Ríos in 1917.^[1] It is deemed to be the follow-on institution of the Escuela Práctica Médico-Militar which was founded for practical training of military physicians at the San Lucas military hospital in Mexico City by its first director Francisco Montes de Oca y Saucedo in 1880.^[2]

The Escuela Médico Militar is under the command of the general direction of military education and rectorate of the university of the army and the air force, a department of the Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA).^[3]

Notable faculty

• Guadalupe Gracia García-Cumplido, also founder and director
• Enrique Cornelio Osornio Martínez de los Ríos, also founder and director
• Fernando Ocaranza Carmona
• Edmundo Calva Cuadrilla
• Segismundo Rodríguez Rodríguez
• Martha Patricia Fernandez

Notable alumni

• Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
• Jesús Lozoya Solís
• Juan García Ramos

External links

• Escuela Médico Militar, SEDENA
• aerial photo at Wikimapia

References

1. 90th anniversary of the Escuela Médico Militar (Spanish).
2. Historia de la Escuela (Spanish), SEDENA.
3. constitution of the Escuela Médico Militar Archived 2008-10-24 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish).

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