[A systematic review of mistreatmen in medical students].

Mistreatment of medical students is an international problem that has been reported for decades in different countries, but its conceptualization and registration form are very heterogeneous. This review aims to identify the main features of this mistreatment from a systematic analysis of the literature published between 1980 and 2016. Using databases, 118 published papers were obtained under the selected criteria.

[The professional differentiation in medical practice. A theoretical model of the process of changing].

The structure of the change process on medical professionalization has not being studied enough. The physicians are made aware of the necessity of changing their medical practice in ways that also affect their personal life. A change involves the need to plan, evaluate possibilities and resources with efficacy and outline competencies.

[Ethics and health. Challenges and reflections].

In this essay, the concepts of ethics, bioethics, and professional ethics are reviewed. In addition, we analyzed the relationship between ethics and medicine, the conditions that can be source of ethical dilemmas, and the influence of ethics in the doctor-patient relationship, in the clinical work of the physician, and in an individual and institutional process of decision-making. Some factors that result from the interrelationship between ethics and health care, in particular the need for preserving and increasing the human dimension in medical practice, are discussed.

[Medical education challenged by the learning society].

This paper analyzes the limitations of dominant paradigms in education and identifies the necessity of research-situated learning in real environments and how medical education must be involved with knowledge management in real, complex, adaptive systems, and concludes with the need for constructing novel educative paradigms with regard to new educational paradigms.