title: [Judicial institutions of medical experts].
abstract: This article considers the evolutive process that judicial organisms of medical experts have experienced in Argentina since their creation and formulates a proposal for its adequacy and modernization. Due to multiple and various evolutive factors, judicial organisms managing medicolegal expert activities show, nowadays, signals that a structural and dynamic reform is needed. They remain as organizational units of Public Administration and their effectiveness and efficiency depends not only of a scientific criteria but a managing one. The present and future challenge will be their conceptual transformation, from "corporate scientific entities" to "public-service-providing units" within the justice administration system.
authors.affiliation: Cuerpo Médico Forense de la Justicia Nacional. robertolmgodoy@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Roberto Lm
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Godoy
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans