Background
Ocaranza, son of Ramón Ocaranza and his wife Antonia Carmona, visited the Instituto Científico y Literario de Toluca, studied at the Escuela Práctica Médico Militar, and graduated at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina.
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Fernando Carmona
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Career
Reportedly he passed his practical training in the Guaymas Municipal Hospital, in the Hospital de la Cruz Roja (Red Cross Hospital), in the military hospital and in the General Hospital in Mexico City. Fernando Ocaranza himself graduated in 1909, became director of the Institute of Biology. After 1915 he lectured, was professor of physiology at the Escuela Médico Militar and at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina, where he was also secretary general from 1921 to 1923, and director from 1924 to 1934.
Furthermore he was professor at the Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios (National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development).
On November 26, 1934, he became rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and held the office until September 17, 1935. In 1949 he became honorary doctor of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Membership
Mexican Academy of History]
In 1945 he became a member of the university council, and was retired from the army in 1947.
