Abstract

ARGUELLO OSPINA, Arturo  and  SANDOVAL GARCIA, Carolina. Colombian Medical Education System: A Hundred Years Behind. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2006, vol.4, n.2, pp.73-81. ISSN 1692-7273.

Almost one hundred years ago the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching authorized a study and report about the medical education of the United States and Canada directed by Mr. Abraham Flexner an education expert of the time. This report turned out to be one of the most important documents of the medical education revolution that took place by that time in North America and that led it to become what it is today. Almost a century after that, Colombian medical education has reached an outstanding similarity to the system described in the Flexner report. The present article highlights the parallel between North America's medical education situation a hundred years ago and Colombia's actual medical education situation. We present here some notions about the actual education system based on what was described on 1910 and which we consider, constitutes the current medical education situation on our country and possibly on many Latin American countries.

Keywords : Medical Education; Abraham Flexner; Flexner report.