El currículo como campo de batalla Configuración del plan de estudios en la segunda reapertura del programa de Medicina de la Universidad del Rosario (1963-1966)

Overview

The social, political, and economic panorama of the 1960’s influenced the curriculum with which the Department of Medicine at the Universidad del Rosario would re-open after being closed for 100 years. This would be the institution that took new ideas about medical education from: Guillermo Fergusson, Director of the Hospital of San José; Guillermo Rueda Montaña, a surgeon; and A. Tribin Piedrahita, a representative from the Bogotá Society of Surgery. They would present a project to form a new Faculty of Medicine to Monseñor Jose Vicente Castro Silva, the rector of the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Once it was approved, they agreed to a contract that defined the academic role of the University, of which they were now a part of, and the Surgical Society which supported the development of programs, investigations, and education of doctors, students, and other related workers. With that established, the debate in the medical field in Colombia was now “What type of doctor does the country need?” and which institutions within the country will be permitted to train them. They searched for a solution on how to overcome the difficulties to problems like: the unequal distribution of doctors in rural areas, the “brain flight” that continued to take away recent graduates; and meet the requirements of the recently formed ASCOFAME(Asociación Colombiana de Facultades de Medicina), which was the only authority to give accreditation.

Research

El currículo como campo de batalla Configuración del plan de estudios en la segunda reapertura del programa de Medicina de la Universidad del Rosario (1963-1966) Thesis