2019, Number 1
Medical Education: origin and evolution as science
Valcárcel IN, Porto RAG, Rodríguez DCR, Cruz MMC, Molina MY, Rodríguez SY
Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 89-100
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: Medical education has been from the practice a set of knowledge that reveal their identification as science, the present article of position, shows the results of the debate about its principles, features and premises that offer internal logical coherence. Objective: to characterize Medical Education from its origin and evolution as science. Developing: According to the concept of Medical Education, precise to give internal logical consistency to this new science, the authors they do not try to provide a conclusive and absolute definition, but to provoke controversy among the medical educators belonging to the Medical Sciences Universities to socialize in the scientific community the need for its conceptual renewal and offer a first approximation to its categorical evolution. Conclusions: The epistemological reflections about Medical Sciences Education, start from the definitions of medical education, which must be rooted with other theories and branches of science in the construction process as an ideal reflection of the essential relationships of their reality and, consequently, remain subject to development.REFERENCES