title: [Teaching practices and the position concerning medical education].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Estimate the degree of development of a position concerning medical education, in a phisician population.
  
  
  METHODS
  We carried out a cross-sectional study at with 1580 physicians; we selected 395 participants by non-proportional stratified sampling of an IMSS health facility; 244 (62 %) was medical professors, included 15 physicians responsible for education. A previously validated instrument was applied to these participants. Three indicators were evaluated: agreement in general, most popular trend, and consequence. Group grading was done blindly. Kuder-Richardson test was utilized to calculate the value of internal instrument consistency and nonparametric statistics < 0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Answering tendency in agreement were similar among physicians; heads or managers were statistically significant. The most popular trend was participative. In terms of consequence in physicians, there were some without consequent sentences in pair.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most popular trend was participative, although it would appear that this has not been pondered, in that on exploring the indicator, that of consequence. Teaching practices do not have any significant influence on the development of a position concerning medical education.
authors.affiliation: Division de Innovación Educativa, Coordinación de Educación en Salud, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. almefi@yahoo.com.mx
authors.forename: Alda María
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Medina-Figueroa
authors.forename: Patricia Atzimba
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Espinosa-Alarcón
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Viniegra-Velázquez
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*