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Medical Schools in Mexico

152 verified medical schools awarding a primary medical qualification in 82 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 Mexico

Medical qualification structure

  • Mexican physician-entry programs carry titles such as Médico Cirujano, Médico Cirujano y Partero, Médico General or Licenciatura en Medicina; COMAEM lists them together as medical programs. Source: comaem.org.mx · verified October 13, 2026

Admissions context

  • Graduates who seek specialty training enter the national residency system through the ENARM examination run by CIFRHS, which measures general-medicine knowledge. Source: cifrhs.salud.gob.mx · verified October 13, 2026

Registration and licensing context

  • COMAEM evaluates Mexican and foreign medical education programs and states recognition by the World Federation for Medical Education and the US NCFMEA. Source: comaem.org.mx · verified October 13, 2026
  • COMAEM's August 2026 status table covers 179 medical programs: 69 public and 110 private, of which 112 hold current accreditation. Source: comaem.org.mx · 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
178
Verified operating or listed schools
152
Unresolved candidates
26
Excluded after checking
0

Discovery sources

Limitations: Backbone is the COMAEM accreditation table (August 2026), which covers programs that have engaged with COMAEM; schools that never did (and newer private programs with SEP or state RVOE) may be missing. No complete SEP/RVOE or CIFRHS per-school list was reachable. Status is "operating" only for programs with current COMAEM accreditation; all others are not_verified (school websites were not checked for current intakes). City was taken from the COMAEM campus column or from an official university page; where neither stated it, the school is listed under unresolved. Ownership is recorded only where the COMAEM row (with its public/private column) fits in one quote. Languages and international admissions were not researched. Follow-up pass (2026-10-13): 12 schools moved from unresolved to records after their city was confirmed on official university pages; most remaining unresolved schools have official sites that did not respond, returned 403, or render no text.

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