[The evaluation of science].

The evaluation and quantification of scientific activity is an extremely complex task. Evaluation of research results is often difficult, and different indicators for the quantification and evaluation of scientific publications have been identified, as well as the development and success of the training programs of researchers.

[The Revista Médica del IMSS in the 2017 Healthcare Book Fair].

On August, the second edition of the Healthcare Book Fair took place, sponsored by the Facultad de Medicina of UNAM. Again, the Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social participated with a stand where we promoted it, talked about the different indexes where our journal is included, explained its objective and scope, and finally talked about its nature as an open access journal, which is aimed to the clinical staff of the different health institutions of our country.

[The ENARM and the schools and faculties of medicine. An analysis that nobody will like].

In Mexico, the career of Doctor of Medicine has been considered as a prerequisite stage to access the specialization. Of course the majority of medical graduates aspire to undertake postgraduate courses in the different institutions that have a university program. The Examen Nacional de Aspirantes a Residencias Médicas (ENARM) (National Evaluation for Medical Residency Applicants) has become for the supporters a gap between the possibility of practicing the profession in a decent way and with a regular remuneration or exercising it in very limited conditions and with low economic income or even without exercising it.

[Why a degree of speciality instead of a Master's?].

It was at the beginning of the last century, in the hospitals where most of the attention was given, when it was established the habit of admitting apprentices as members of the medical team. However, it was not clearly established how aspirants were admitted, how their learning was to be developed, or what their functions were.