An innovative experience in of medicalsocial integration in the training of doctors

Abstract

In this article some historical precedents are exposed based on the role that the social determinants of health play and its influence in the medical practice and in the medical education; how these have turned into the cornerstone in the analysis of the current problems of health and the endorsement (support) that represents that the World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted this perspective and that is a recommendation in order that the governments take them into account in the development of their health policies, but as foundation in the formation of human resources in health, towards an integral comprehension of the Health-Disease Process and the need of perspectives changes, skills and attitudes of the future physicians.

We analyze some foundations and principles of experiences that have tried to bring to the curriculums and résumés this new vision, its achievements and difficulties.

Based on a critical and autocritical questioning of our own and external experiences, we raised the need to overcome weaknesses in the comprehension of the role of the social and human sciences and its integration in the Medical Degree. We broadly describe our two years’ experience of linkage of these in the résumé and practice in the formation of our students with the creation and implementation of a Seminar of Socio-psychobiological Integration in the first four semesters of the degree within the new medical surgeon curriculum (2016), of the Faculty of Higher Studies Iztacala, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Finally, we make some observations prior to an evaluation of the seminar, in the framework of a curricular evaluation that is in process.