[The surgery and its teaching in Mexico. Historical review 1325-2000].
OBJECTIVE
To relate the outstanding events in the surgical teaching in Mexico since 1325 to 2000.


METHODS
Historic review.


METHODS
Third level health care hospital.


RESULTS
The teaching of surgical procedures has been pretty much alike in many cultures around the world, even though this did not happened at the same time in all places; a very good example of this are surgical teachings in ancient Egypt, Greece and Mexico separated by 4,300 and 1,900 years respectively whose surgical methods and its teaching are quite similar. Afterwards the influence of Spanish, French, German and American medical cultures developed faster and efficient changes with the main objective of obtain every time better surgeons.
de-la-Garza-Villaseñor
Lorenzo
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Dirección de Cirugía, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, DF. lgarzav@quetzal.innsz.mx
D018595:Colonialism / Q000266:history; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education* / Q000266:history*; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history; D008800:Mexico; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history; D013030:Spain