North America · Central America
Medical Schools in Guatemala
3 verified medical schools awarding a primary medical qualification.
Research in progress. Some schools are verified; the candidate list from official sources has not been fully reconciled.
Last reviewed October 13, 2026.
Medical education in Guatemala
Medical qualification structure
- At USAC the medical program (Médico y Cirujano) ends with a sixth-year supervised professional practice in hospitals and rural health posts. Source: medicina.usac.edu.gt · verified October 13, 2026
Verified medical schools
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Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of San Carlos of Guatemala
Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Guatemala City · University faculty
Physician and SurgeonOperatingBasic record - View School
Universidad Francisco Marroquín Faculty of Medicine
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala City · University faculty
Medicine (six-year degree program)OperatingBasic record - View School
Universidad Mesoamericana Faculty of Medicine
Universidad Mesoamericana - Facultad de Medicina
Guatemala City · University faculty
Licentiate in Medicine and SurgeryOperatingBasic record
How this country was researched
- Research status
- Research in progress
- Candidates in discovery sources
- 7
- Verified operating or listed schools
- 3
- Unresolved candidates
- 4
- Excluded after checking
- 0
Discovery sources
- Consejo de la Enseñanza Privada Superior (CEPS) - universidades · CEPS
- University websites · Universities
- Wikidata discovery hints (discovery hints only) · Wikidata
Limitations: No official list of medicine programs could be extracted (CEPS program reports are form-driven). Candidates come from the CEPS university list and university websites; four likely medicine schools are unresolved because their sites were unreadable. USAC regional-centre medicine programs were not checked.