[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.

Development and validation of an instrument to measure family physicians' clinical aptitude in metabolic syndrome in Mexico.

Objective: The purpose of this work was to measure family physicians' clinical aptitude for the diagnosis and treatment of metabolic syndrome in a representative sample from six Family Medicine Units (UMF) at the Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS), in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

Material And Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. A validated and structured instrument was used, with a confidence coefficient (Kuder-Richardson) of 0.

[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.

[Relationship between the development of a stance and the precedents of teaching education and educational practice].

Introduction: A solid perspective is the result of knowledge building and constitutes a stance of the teacher on education.

Objectives: To explore if there is a stance on education among professors in the health area and to investigate if teaching education has an influence on it, as well as if there is any relation-ship between stance and academic level in teaching.

Material And Methods: A census was made among teachers in the medical units of the health area in Guadalajara.

[Critical reading skill goes along with the proximity to health research?].

Objective: The evaluation of a reading skill to critically read theoretical texts, interpretation; at different groups linked to investigation and, explore if a closer, longer experience with this, can influence this skill development.

Material And Methods: An instrument that comprises a text on epistemologic aspects and the relation of science with society, was validated. It was applied on four natural groups, selected by a degree of involvement they had shown in health research: students at "pre-degree" (n = 23); students at post-degree (n = 19), academic administrative assessors (n = 17), and professional researchers (n = 20).