practise, accompany during ambulance transfer to higher-level hospitals, as well as take full part in 'on-call' shifts. The second semester is basically focused on the students' review of his/her chosen subjects from any basic or clinical science, which can be distributed in any fashion, mostly in Hospital Universitario San Ignacio (HUSI). University Hospital The Hospital Universitario San Ignacio is the faculty's "home", itself residing in the 8th and 9th floors of such institution. Students, residents, interns and medical staff work alongside within the hospital; the many departments located within the hospital's 9 floors allow for students to carry out rounds with doctors on most common specialties, usually in small groups (almost always less than 10 students per doctor). Students also carry out night shifts. The student area is located in the 6th floor, with about 60 beds, lockers, a TV room and studying rooms. The hospital also has a fully equipped emergency room where practise is also carried out by students and residents on incoming and observation patients. Such is also the case in the fully equipped intensive care unit (ICU), divided into Cardiologic, Pulmonary and General instances. Affiliated hospitals & medical centres The faculty of medicine runs its different extramural rotations in more than 30 hospitals and clinical institutions within Bogotá and Colombia, where further focus on the topics studied can be acquired by the students, by carrying out hospital practise. These vary from general hospitals to medical centres dedicated only to one specialty; they also vary widely in demographic and socioeconomic distribution, allowing for experience to be obtained in private and public hospitals with multicultural patients and varying amounts/quality of resources. Among others: Centro Dermatológico Federico Lleras Acosta ESE - Bogotá (dermatology rotation) Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Paz -Bogotá (psychiatry rotation) Clínica Retornar - Bogotá (psychiatry rotation) Fundación Abood Shaio - Bogotá (internal medicine rotation) Fundación Cardio Infantil - Bogotá (internal medicine rotation) Fundación Clínica Valle de Lili - Cali (psychiatry rotation) Hospital Federico Lleras Acosta - Ibagué (psychiatry rotation) Hospital del Perpetuo Socorro - Pasto (psychiatry rotation) Hospital Diego León Álvarez - La Mesa (extramural internship) Hospital Regional de Guateque - Guateque (extramural internship) Hospital San Rafael ESE - Tunja (extramural internship) Hospital Santa Clara ESE - Bogotá (internal medicine rotation) Hospital Universitario de la Samaritana ESE - Bogotá (internal medicine / surgery / ob/gyn / orthopaedics rotations) Instituto de Ortopedia Infantil Franklin Delano Roosevelt -