Syllabuses at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Faculty of Medicine and their changes during the twentieth century

Abstract

Professional studies in Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico were subjected to a process of review and change in the twentieth century, reflected in the amendments and reforms to the curricula of the Faculty of Medicine. Through research of documents located in the Historical Archive of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM, particularly the curriculum, in this article we highlight the most relevant of these, revealing the development of medical education. This enables us to understand the various factors that directly influenced curriculum changes, resulting in the Single Curriculum of 1985. It can be said that the major achievement of these changes was Primary Health Care and the training of qualified general practitioners with the ability to meet the challenges of a national context with many deficiencies in the field of health.