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This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. In medical education, there have been three important reforms: science-based curriculum, problem-based learning, and competency-based education. Currently, the concept of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) goes a step beyond competencies. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to present a proposal for an EPA-based curriculum for undergraduate medical education, and second, to describe its curricular framework, educational model and organization. This curricular proposal integrates EPA-based education with the foundations of the interpretive epistemology, the constructivist paradigm and the health care transformations. Using Actividades Profesionales Confiables (APROC) as a curricular guideline helps the educators define knowledge, skills, and attitudes; teachers can plan activities that link theory to practice; evaluators can assess the student's performance and provide him with feedback, and Faculty leaders and collaborators can implement projects to improve educational quality. The curriculum proposal includes a flexible modular system, the integration of biomedical, socio-medical and clinical sciences, and a close link between theory and practice. This curriculum puts medical education at the forefront, it favors the comprehensive education of future physicians, and it constitutes a true educational revolution.

This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Objective: The aim of this study was to emphasize the importance of integrating the context to the construction of the specific Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) for Undergraduate Medical Education (UME). Design: Mixed study with three phases: 1) Exploratory, we searched context with focus groups technique. 2) Construction, we analyzed academic program of our faculty and the national epidemiology. Therefore, we selected the contents and generated each EPA with its milestones and competence levels. 3) Implementation, we conformed a formative assessment tool which was tested at surgery rotation. Setting: We worked with 10 public and private health institutions of secondary and tertiary health care levels which were used as clinical settings for surgery rotation of fifth year medicine course at the Faculty of Medicine of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. Participants: In exploratory focus groups, were involved 10 surgeons and 12 medical students. At implementation 64 students participated and 25 gave feedback. All participants were involved voluntary for this study. Results: We constructed eleven surgery specific EPAs for UME, within specific context of the clinical environment of our faculty. Conclusions: We propose these EPAs because they reflected the most important topics or diseases in our country and as educative developers we support the idea that our graduates should be able to attend the population needs of health.

This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Since 2011, students of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico with an outstanding academic record and a vocation for biomedical, socio-medical and clinical research, have the opportunity to participate in the Plan of Combined Studies in Medicine (PECEM) which allows to study medicine and a doctorate in medicine in a period of eight years. The purpose of this study is to examine the best academic, institutional and student practices in PECEM, to describe and transfer them to other educational contexts in the health area. An exploratory qualitative study with a phenomenological approach was carried out in PECEM students using the technique of focus groups (FG). A total of 52 students participated from the 6 generations of PECEM. Data from 6 FG was analyzed and best practices were identified in 3 dimensions: 1) institutional context, 2) internal dynamics of the group, and 3) self-regulation.