Outcome-based national profile of Mexico's medical graduates.

Introduction: In countries such as Mexico, outcome-based education has flourished only in a few schools. The Mexican Association of Medical Schools committed to defining a set of national outcomes and standards for all Mexican medical graduates.

Methods: During the XLVIII ordinary national meeting of this association, 120 faculty members and deans of medical schools worked collaboratively and identified, by consensus, the preliminary version of the national outcomes and minimum essential requirements, as a means of defining the national outcome-based profile for Mexican medical graduates.

[The education of professors of medicine. Comparison of 2 education strategies for teaching information criticism].

Introduction: Educational programmes for professors of medicine are an unusual situation, particularly in relation to the specialization courses. Since 1983, the Center for the Formation of Professors in the Health Area was established at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), and from 1996 other regional centers were established. The absence of educational research as a prominent activity within the activities of the centers has propitiated the ankylosis of the curriculum, the lack of innovation and routine.