Término de un aniversario especial / Closing an special anniversary

RESUMO

During 1997 Revista Medica de Chile commemorated its 125th anniversary. The first issue appeared in july, 1872, and the journal has been published continuously since then. In this celebration, selected articles, distributed into12 monthly issues, dealt with important topics in clinical and biomedical research, medical education, the ethics of clinical, biomedical and biological basic research. Controversial aspects of the birth of human individuality after conception, artificial fertilization, and the cloning of mammalian species, were addressed by experts. The July issue contained studies on the history of Chilean medicine reflected in this journal; the evolution of the journal itself along its 125 years of age; a tribute to its founders; an epistemometric study of its current state: and the reforms in undergraduate curricula to be applied in the next years by eight Chilean Medical Shools. In 1997, international connections were stimulated through the Editor's participation in the International Congress on Peer Review and Global Communications and the meeting of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). The Revista contributed in ist October issue to the "1997 Global Theme Issue on Aging". The role and Revista prestige of Revista Medica de Chile as a general medical juornal is well established in the national stage and in the Latinamerican region