Abstract

DR. ANGEL DE LA GARZA BRITO, director of the Mexico School of Hygiene (Bol de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, 23, 607; 1944), maintains that medical education in Mexico, while good on the whole, has failed to keep up with the rapid progress in medicine and especially its social aspects. He declares that medicine is tending to become a business rather than a profession. The only guide for the average student is the material success of men in certain fields. Public health is a neglected branch, and the time devoted to it in medical schools ranges from 43 to 100 hours, which is decidedly insufficient. An attempt should be made to correlate the clinical, medical and surgical aspects of disease with the preventive social aspect. The students, for example, should visit the homes of certain patients in company with a social worker to gain an insight into the influence of background upon disease.

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