The teaching function of the Faculty of Medicine:

current challenges

Abstract

Trying to detail the challenges facing the University of the Republic and its Faculty of Medicine in a few lines is a very difficult task. Even more complicated, to prepare feasible proposals capable of adapting its structure and functions to the challenges posed by society as a whole. In fact, and in accordance with the Organic Law, its functions are undergraduate and postgraduate teaching as the axis of the training of human resources in health, which means receiving thousands of new students every year in the different careers that make up the faculty, aiming at the promotion of a relevant scientific research in the vast field of Health Sciences as the engine of a development sustainable in the area -with the enormous implications that it has in the planning and adaptation of resources- and develop extension activities in the environment that aim at the prevention of diseases and the development of policies for the stimulation of healthy activities. Recently, the University has accepted health care as a university function that is added to traditional ones (teaching, research and extension) and is able to achieve the integration of all the structures linked to the area. (...)