The Master's Degree in Quality Management for Laboratories is aimed at professionals in the areas of Natural and Exact Sciences, Engineering and Health whose professional work is carried out in testing and calibration or clinical analysis laboratories. Graduates of this master's degree will be able to work in quality management or coordination, metrological assurance coordination, expert analysis in quality assurance and quality assurance management in laboratories in different sectors. Likewise, they may be managers of companies related to advice and consulting aimed at the organization of good practices in quality management for laboratories, the accreditation of services and certification of products or processes.

General Objective

The general objective of the Academic Program of the Master in Quality Management for Laboratories is to strengthen the knowledge and skills of the human resource responsible for the quality management system in laboratories in order to increase the competitiveness of the services provided.a.

Specific objectives

• Promote critical thinking skills that allow the analysis of processes related to laboratory quality management and the coordination of interdisciplinary interventions that contribute to their development.

• Provide the student with knowledge related to regulations in quality systems, models, articulation and complementarity of laboratory management, to offer consulting and advisory services in the area at a national and international level.

• Develop skills in the application of technical tools to identify problems and propose solutions, which contribute to local or regional development related to quality management for laboratories.

Professional Profile

The Master in Quality Management for Laboratories enables its graduates to:

• Plan, carry out and evaluate laboratory quality control that guarantees the validity of clinical analyses, tests and calibrations, and in turn contributes to the strengthening or improvement of processes.

• Design reference materials for calibration and validation processes of fundamental methods to provide reliability to the work of laboratories.

• Be a manager or consultant of programs aimed at the accreditation of laboratory quality according to the standards of international and national standardization organizations.

• Participate in the strengthening of the National Quality Subsystem and Metrological Control for the development of science and technology for the benefit of laboratory management.

• Lead work teams or programs related to quality management for laboratories and sustainable development.

Occupational Profile

The Master in Quality Management for Laboratories may work in quality management or coordination, metrological assurance coordinator, expert analyst in quality assurance and quality assurance director in laboratories in different sectors. Likewise, you may be a manager of a company related to advice and consulting aimed at the organization of good practices in quality management for laboratories, the accreditation of services and certification of products or processes.

Get to know the Curricular Structure of the Master in Quality Management for Laboratories.

Complete information about the Registration and Admission Process, registration requirements, minimum scores, specific weights, costs and other information is found on the page: https://admisiones.univalle.edu.co/new/_new/posgrados/

Specific admission requirements

• Possess a professional degree in Engineering, Exact Sciences and Health, with experience in Laboratories.

• Accredit professional activities.

• Certify the total cumulative average of the last reported undergraduate or graduate degree.

• Complete the registration form correctly, attaching the documents required by the Universidad del Valle for registration in Postgraduate programs.

• Registration fee: $308,950.

The Doctorate in Ergonomics unites the efforts of two of the most important public universities in Colombia; the Universidad del Valle de Cali and the National University of Bogotá, to create a sustainable program that responds to current and future needs for high-level training and research in ergonomics. It has the support of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), the Latin American Union of Ergonomics (ULAERGO), the Colombian Society of Ergonomics SCE and the Network of Universities in Ergonomics of Latin America and the Caribbean (RUELAC). 

This program aims to train ergonomics researchers with a holistic, systemic, inclusive, social and environmental vision, capable of investigating and solving high-level knowledge problems that contribute to optimizing interactions between human beings and their environment in terms of performance, sustainability, well-being and good living at all scales, to contribute to the development of the discipline and profession of Ergonomics, promoting inter- and transdisciplinarity in addressing theoretical and practical problems under the recognition of local and regional diversity. In Latin America especially (of each country or territory).

In this way, the Doctorate in Ergonomics academic program is oriented towards the development of ergonomics that includes and transcends the current definition of ergonomics, contributing to its insertion from daily life practices to public policies and regulations. In addition, the Doctoral Program has a faculty of professors from various universities in Colombia and international universities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America who will guide the research and doctoral theses.

Details about the calendar and admission and registration process should be consulted in the website of the Admissions and Academic Registration Area. 

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Registration and admission regulations for the academic program of Doctorate in Ergonomics.
Registration fee: 30% del SMMLV current
*Consult Here the current minimum monthly salary in Colombia

Meetings will be held in the In-Person Assisted with Technology (PAT) modality on the third Friday of each month during the day. An in-person meeting will be held for two continuous weeks from Monday to Friday at the end of the semester. Full time dedication. 

Professional Profile

Professionals who graduate from the Doctorate in Ergonomics program will have investigative capabilities in multiple action scenarios, integrating a critical, systemic and socio-environmental perspective. Therefore, they will be able to:

• Promote or be part of research groups for the management and development of knowledge and knowledge, within the framework of ethical principles and current legal regulations.
• Propose situated and innovative solutions in the field of their competence, applying methods with academic validity and with a critical attitude towards the appropriation of knowledge.
• Generate continuous self-learning strategies in your work area and extend the frontiers of knowledge.
• Maintain a critical attitude based on knowledge about the management, appropriation and mastery of technologies in the topics associated with Ergonomics.
• Lead processes that, through the application of acquired knowledge, improve well-being, quality of life and good living.
• Contribute to the construction of public policies that promote regulations, programs, plans and actions that strengthen the adequacy of sociotechnical systems.

Occupational Profile 

The Doctor in Ergonomics will have the ability to function as:

• Leader in the development and execution of projects in Science, Technology and Innovation in Ergonomics in the area pertinent to their training.
• Manager of research centers at an academic level and programs in governmental or private productive organizations, in the field of their training.
• Consultant and advisor for the design, application and evaluation of policies in the ergonomics environment, which promote the improvement of quality of life and health.

Applicant Profile

The program is open to various disciplines related to ergonomics such as health sciences, medical sciences, technical and engineering sciences, industrial design, architecture and human and social sciences such as psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, social work and other related areas.

Due to its characteristics of in-person concentrations assisted by technological means once a month, and its modality of a two-week in-person concentration at the end of each semester in the city of Cali, Colombia, it is expected that professionals from Latin American countries can participate. and the Caribbean or from other continents such as Africa or South Asia or from European countries such as Spain, Italy and Portugal, among others, or the Latin community that lives in North American countries.

Get to know the research groups at the Universidad del Valle and the National University of Colombia that support the Doctorate in Ergonomics program. 

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The first doctorate in Bioengineering in the country is inter-institutional between the Universidad Autonoma de Occidente with its faculties of Engineering and Basic Sciences and the Universidad del Valle with its faculties of Health, Engineering and Natural and Exact Sciences.

This program aims to train doctors with transdisciplinary skills and high academic quality, promote development and innovation in the various frontier areas of engineering related to industrial, chemical, biological and biotechnological processes, so that the region and the country develop scientific and technological capabilities, that positively impact people's quality of life and economic development.

Admission considers professionals in natural and exact sciences, engineering, health areas, agronomy, veterinary medicine and related areas, interested in acquiring training as researchers, who seek to generate new knowledge in the holistic solution of problems in bioengineering with an interdisciplinary vision. In this order of ideas, the Doctorate in Bioengineering aims to:

• The training of a Doctor who responds to the needs of society with rigor, academic and ethical foundations, based on the appropriation of the concepts, contents, processes and resources that are available to him by training in a program supported by two accredited Institutions. of high quality, within the framework of human dignity.
• The Doctorate provides clarity and conceptual and methodological unity on important topics for the development of competencies from knowledge (theory), praxis (acting), with the human and social component. 
• The Doctor in Bioengineering will be a knowledgeable individual and maker of creative and innovative proposals, aware of local needs that have a positive impact on the society to which he is linked.

Biomaterials and regenerative medicine

It arises from the need for replacement of organs and tissues, which in the population is greater every day. The future of health treatments requires an interdisciplinary team of professionals capable of preventing disease from nutraceuticals, regenerating tissues and organs by combining biomaterials with the appropriate cells, and creating pharmacological treatments from pharmacogenomics, adjusted to each individual patient.

Biomedical Engineering

This area, established like all the others of the Doctorate based on the accumulated experience of years of research, tends towards the development of techniques, devices, equipment and protocols that allow offering more efficient diagnostic support, quality assurance and patient safety in institutions, hospital, development of aids for rehabilitation and inclusion of patients with disabilities, offering definitive solutions to technology needs to improve quality of life.

Environmental Biotechnology

Environmental Biotechnology in particular is able to take on the challenge represented by the quality of surface and groundwater, soil and air, which are under continuous threats due to the intense use of these resources in industrial and artisanal productive activities. The management of these threats and their prevention through bioengineering tools are the pillar on which the sustainability and habitability of the region and the country rest.

Agri-food Biotechnology

The needs of the national and regional productive apparatus associated with agricultural activities and food production represent an important area in the country. Bioengineering applied to the management of crops and their waste, fishing chains, the production of inputs and food for animals, could allow food independence and security and the possibility of transformation, generating added value to the products, positively impacting the productivity of the region.

Complete information about the Registration and Admission Process, registration requirements, minimum scores, specific weights and other information, consult the website of the Admissions Area of ​​the Universidad del Valle.