Educational experiences in a master of health professions education program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico: A qualitative study.

Background: Medical schools and healthcare institutions need leaders with formal training in education, in order to provide quality medical teaching. An answer to this need lies in the graduate programs of health professions education. Many programs exist, but there is a dearth of publications about their educational processes and experiences.

[Competence development in undergraduate medical schools: a model with entrusted professional activities].

Introduction: Today´s relevant educational models emphasize that a great part of learning be situated and reflexive; one of those is the Entrusted Professional Activities model. The study objective was to develop a model that integrates Entrusted Professional Activities with a medical school curriculum.

Methods: From October 2012 a multidisciplinary group met to develop a model with the specialty of obstetrics and gynecology.

Eight years' experience with a Medical Education Journal Club in Mexico: a quasi-experimental one-group study.

Background: A time-honored strategy for keeping up to date in medicine and improving critical appraisal skills is the Journal Club (JC). There are several reports of its use in medicine and allied health sciences but almost no reports of JC focused on medical education. The purpose of the study is to describe and evaluate an eight years' experience with a medical education Journal Club (MEJC).

[Learning about death from the undergraduate: Evaluation of an educational intervention].

Background: From June to November 2013 an elective subject "The doctor before death" was held in a public medical school. The aim of this report is to assess the achievement of the objectives of this course.

Methods: The main objectives of the course were to develop competences, aptitude for reflection before death and encourage changes in attitude towards it.

[Educational model to develop trustworthy professional activities].

Background: The reorganization of the national health system (SNS), enforces reflection and transformation on medical education in clinical contexts. The study presents an educational model to develop entrusted professionals activities (MEDAPROC) to train human resources in health with reliable knowledge, skills and attitudes to work in the shifting scenario of the SNS.

Methods: The paper discusses international and national documents on skills in medicine.

[Learning styles in medical residents and their professors of a pediatric hospital.].

Background: the learning styles are cognitive, emotional, and psychological characteristics, which function as relatively stable indicators of how teachers and students perceive, interact, and respond to their learning environments. Knowing students' styles allows teachers to have tools to improve medical education. Our objective was to identify learning styles in pediatric residents and professors from a pediatric hospital.

[Modifications to the faculty of medicine core curriculum at the National University of Mexico: adjusting the basic sciences program].

Unlabelled: In order to identify the core curriculum of each course from the faculty of medicine’s study plan at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), 22 workshops were organized. A total of 505 professors of 22 different subjects participated to identify the core content of each course: to define essential and necessary contents; to relate each objective´s course with some of the eight established competences; and to apply an individual questionnaire where the professor suggests strategies for the vertical and horizontal integration among similar courses. At the end of these workshops, several meetings were carried out to incorporate the work done in order to design an integrated and modified program with the essential and necessary knowledge, eliminating the obsolete one.