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Medical Schools in Ecuador

20 verified medical schools awarding a primary medical qualification in 10 cities.

Initial reconciliation completed. Every candidate from the official discovery sources has been verified, excluded, flagged as a duplicate or listed as unresolved. Not a guarantee of completeness.

Last reviewed October 13, 2026.

Medical education in Ecuador

Medical qualification structure

  • The undergraduate medicine program (carrera de Medicina) leads to the title Médico/a General and typically lasts six years including a one-year rotating internship. Source: uazuay.edu.ec · verified October 13, 2026

Registration and licensing context

  • Each medicine program is approved by the Council of Higher Education (CES) by resolution, with a fixed validity period. Source: unl.edu.ec · verified October 13, 2026

Verified medical schools

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How this country was researched

Research status
Initial reconciliation completed
Candidates in discovery sources
38
Verified operating or listed schools
20
Unresolved candidates
18
Excluded after checking
0

Discovery sources

Limitations: Candidates are the 38 vigente MEDICINA programs in the CES offer register (queried 2026-10-13). Because that register is POST-only, every record is quoted from the university's own program page; 18 rows where no citable program page was found (including PUCE's five campuses, Universidad Central del Ecuador and Universidad de Guayaquil) are listed as unresolved, not excluded. Ownership/financing type is known from CES but not quotable and left null. Status 'operating' rests on a current official program page. Languages and international admissions were not researched; English names are translations.

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