Abstract

ARIAS-CASTILLO, Liliana. Reflections on medical education in Colombia. FEM (Ed. impresa) [online]. 2019, vol.22, n.3, pp.97-102.  Epub Oct 14, 2019. ISSN 2014-9840.  https://dx.doi.org/10.33588/fem.223.999.

This article presents an overview of the advances made in medical education in Colombia, based on the joint work carried out among the academia, medical education associations and the government through the Ministries of National Education and of Health and Social Protection as the bodies governing the profession. Situations to be addressed in the field of medical education include the ratio of the number of physicians to the number of inhabitants, equity in access to specialist doctors in the different areas of the country, the competences of general practitioners to work within the field of primary care and the low demand for postgraduate medical degrees. We present some data on the current state of medical education in the country, the experience of the creation of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad del Valle, the recommendations of the Commission for the Transformation of Medical Education in Colombia and the position taken by the aforementioned ministries with regard to them. Colombia is moving towards the construction of desirable scenarios in medical education in collaboration with government agencies, and this makes it possible to implement a series of actions concerning the context, the environment, the individual, learning, educational strategies, educational resources and evaluation.

Keywords : Colombia; Family medicine; Latin America; Medical education.

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