[A comparative study between two academic working environments in residents of family medicine].

Objective: To compare the satisfaction level in the academic working environments (AWE) between the residents of two training primary care units.

Methods: Observational, transversal and comparative study. A previously constructed and validated instrument was applied, it included 30 items that evaluated the AWE with the following indicators: support, satisfaction, participation and respect; the reliability index's instrument was high (Cronbach's alpha is 0.

[An educational position development in medicine teachers].

Background: From a participative educational position view, enhancement of the teaching is subjected to the fact that mentors had though about conditions and circumstances that determine their performance and to get a solid position that guides them into overcoming their day-to-day trouble burden. Our objective was to measure effects of a participative educational strategy that motivates critical evaluation in the development of a position on education; seven groups of teachers were compared.

Methods: Through a longitudinal comparative intervention design, 71 students (mentors) coming from seven educational interventions, were studied, during a period from 2002 to 2005.

[Further than learning contents, developing skills].

Objective: To evaluate the scope of an educational strategy for developing an aptitude for critical reading of educational research information (CRERI) and for clinical research information (CRCRI).

Methods: A longitudinal, intervening, comparative study was performed on seven groups with educational interventions that promote development skills rather than learning contents. This was evaluated through two instruments that measure skills for critical reading information from educational and clinical investigation reports.

[Family dysfunction and paediatric patients with asthma].

Objective: To determine family function of pediatric patients with asthma.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Family medicine clinic number 51, Mexican Institute of Social Security, Primary Care, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

[Is epistemological meditation a feature of scientific activity?].

Introduction: In research activities, critical thinking about mechanisms that control the selection of certain knowledge forms and correlative practices are unusual.

Objective: To compare the levels of epistemological meditation in professional groups with different grades of expertise in research field.

Methods: Prolective, comparative, cross-sectional study by means of validated questionnaire that measure posture (consistence in points of view about diverse scientific conceptions and activities), main indicator of epistemological meditation level.