Issue. Sociomedical research
Aim. Characterize and problematize the educational offer in medicine in public universities in Mexico in relation to the inclusion of learning units of sociology and medical anthropology in order to strengthen research in the socio-medical field.
In Mexico there are 34 state public universities of Higher Education, in 32 of them the Bachelor of Medicine is offered, only in 15 educational programs an axis, area or training field is established in socio-medicine with subjects of medical anthropology, medical sociology, socio-anthropology of medicine, social medicine and socio-medicine that are offered in the first three semesters or in the last three of school medical training. Postgraduate studies in socio-medicine promoted by Higher Education Institutions have a great challenge since medical education in Mexico has a strong biomedical and clinical orientation that segments the study of beliefs, the role of social relations, behaviors, values and cultural norms that shape the doctor-patient relationship and fragment the understanding of the health-disease-care process; The result is a medical practice focused on the disease and not on health, a medical practice focused on the cure and not on prevention that makes invisible the contribution of herbal medicine, domestic medicine and self-care.
