Steering Committee of the Faculty of Medicine (CDM)

Body responsible for the organization of the university degree, achievement of objectives and articulation of the coordination mechanisms of the Faculty of Medicine, composed of the Dean and the Vice-Deans, which meets on a weekly basis.

Monitoring Boards

It is carried out by the Vice-Deanship of Academic Organization together with the Professors in Charge of the Course (PEC) in contact with the Subject Coordinators, whose objective is to share the detailed monitoring of the student body, analyze deviations with respect to results and foresee actions, in addition to reinforcing the positive aspects, in each semester.

Evaluation Boards

The Management, the Subject Coordinators and the PEC responsible for the course are in attendance. The purpose of these meetings is for the teaching team of each course to share the detailed results of the student evaluation process, with special attention to cases of insufficient performance. Meetings are held at the end of each assessment period

Underperformance Commission

Commission for the monitoring of student performance, which is evaluated by the Dean and the Vice-Deans of Academic Planning and Comprehensive Training, together with those responsible for personal attention to students and academic orientation of medical students

Stable Research Groups Follow-up Commission

Constituted by the Vice-Dean for Research and the representatives of the Research Support Unit. This commission meets annually to ensure the proper monitoring of the activity of the groups (active projects, published articles, patents, dissemination in conferences and other forums), as well as to gather the perspectives and needs of each group for the coming year

Joint and Coordination Commissions

Monitoring of the agreements with health institutions, of joint university-health center composition that ensure the correct development, evaluation and improvement of clinical practices. The Joint Commissions meet once or twice a year, without prejudice to the more frequent meetings of the different organizational structures in the faculty and the health centers

Doctoral Academic Commission

The Academic Commission of the Doctoral Program in Biotechnology, Medicine and Biosanitary Sciences is made up of members of these three faculties and the Vice-Chancellor for Research of the UFV. This commission meets on a monthly basis to deal with matters arising from the development of the Program and the theses enrolled in it, to ensure that they are properly monitored and to evaluate new applications submitted each year to the program. Doctoral Secretary: Fernando Ruiz Ramos fernando.ruiz@ufv.es

Quality Monitoring Commission of the Faculty of Medicine

It is made up of the Faculty Management (Dean and Vice-Deans), the student representatives, the administrative and services staff representative (PAS), the university degree quality manager and a member of the UFV Department of Institutional Quality and Evaluation. This commission meets twice a year, coinciding with the beginning and end of the academic year.

RESEARCH SUPPORT UNITS

Unit of service, support and assistance to the professionals of the health centers and professors of the Faculty of Medicine to facilitate the development of their research projects
Contact: investiga.medicina@ufv.es.
The main functions of the Unit are:

Support in the conceptualization phase of an idea in a study protocol.
Statistical analysis and interpretation of results from Databases.
Support in the writing of scientific articles.
Support to carry out Cochrane systematic reviews.
Support to carry out Cochrane systematic reviews.
Promote the contact with Stable Research Groups of the UFV.
Ad hoc training in research.

CHAIRS

UFV-UCB Chair on Epilepsy and Movement Disorders .
Directors: Antonio Gil-Nagel Rein and Fernando Caballero Martínez.

UFV-MERK Chair on Immunology.
Directors: Luis Álvarez Vallina and Fernando Caballero Martínez.

UFV-FEA Chair on Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery.
Directors: Francesc Soler Romagosa and Antonio Pérez-Caballer.

UFV-UCB Chair on Inflammation and Bone Health.
Director: Marta Sanz García.

UFV-Pfizer Chair on Person-Centered Medicine and Humanization of Care.
Director: Fernando Caballero Martínez.

UFV-Fundación Vithas Chair on Pain.
Directors: María Carnero González and Juan Carlos Tornero Tornero.

UFV-Fundación ECO Chair on Person-Centered Oncology.
Directors: Rafael López López López and Antonio González Martí.

Microsurgery and Ophthalmic Surgery Classroom.
Directors: José Luis Urcelay and Rosario Cobo

COCHRANE CENTER IN MADRID

Madrid Associate Center. Cochrane is aimed at all those interested in using high quality information in health care decision making, whether they are doctors or nurses, patients or caregivers, researchers or sponsors.

Cochrane evidence provides a powerful tool to enhance their knowledge and decision making in health care. The UFV together with the Hospital Ramón y Cajal make possible, through their alliance, the creation of the Cochrane Associated Center of Madrid whose mission is to produce reliable and accessible health information that represents an international reference model of reliable and quality information.