title: [Integration of education and services as a base for the formation of human resources in health care].
abstract: It will be necessary to coordinate the University role with health institutional policies concerning the definition of health goals, and personnel functions as the latter should be trained if and when they are offered the opportunities of grasping both theory and practice in an environment closely related to everyday problems and realities. Accordingly, health care changes must precede health educational changes. There are two factors that interfere with a proper integration between the education care system: 1) an excess number of medical (or health students that overcome teaching facilities and 2) the correct trend in health care, based on specialists, attached to large hospital centers in urban environments. No attention is paid in this way to the importance of the health team, to health promotion, health education, preventive measures, etc. In several Mexican schools new curricula have been developed in which students face actual health problems from the beginning of the studies and they are trained as another resource of the health system being involved in all type of health activities in health centers, schools, nurseries, out-patient community clinics, etc.
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services; D004501:Education, Medical; D008800:Mexico; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D000078329:Workforce
vernacular_title: La integración docencia-servicio como base de la formación de recursos humanos para la salud