Creación de carreras tradicionales en nuevas universidades: el caso de medicina / Creation of traditional careers at new universities: the case of medicine

In 1981, the educational system in Chile was diversified characterizing Universities, Professional Institutes and Technical Training Centers. The provincila seats of traditional Universities were transformed in independent universities, which strongly increased its number. A number of private universities also emerged. This strategy was quantitatively succesful, duplicating the number of youngters between 19 and 24 years old that were following superior studies (from 88 to 199 per 1,000) and duplicating the registers at higher education institutions (from 118,000 to 244,000). The quality of the education is a matter of concern at the present time. In the case of Medicine, the Medical Schools Association has proposed to the Higher Education Council an accreditation system for programms that pursue the M.D. degree, based on explicit standards for all medical schools. Considering the teaching, research, laboratory and library resources in Chile are limited, accreditation is even more important. The splitting relationship between Medical Schools and the Ministry of Health, whose establishments are used as training centers, is also worrisome. Finally the physiacian: inhabitant relashionship in Chile is adequated for its development level (1:960). Its geographical distribution, however, is highly unsatisfactory (1:657 in Santiago and 1:2.200 in some Regions). The implementation of professional and economomical incentives could reverse this situation

160º aniversario de la carrera de obstetricia: en la senda de SIFRA y PUA / 160º anniversary of obstetrics school: in the way of SIFRA and PUA

Midwifery is one of the oldest professions. However, the first attempts to train midwifes appeared only in the seventeenth century and the first maternities