In this era of communication revolution and the rise of information technology, global knowledge society, there is an enormous achievement in biomedical sciences for the triumph of genetics and molecular biology and the rapid advance of technology, and both medicine and medical education are strongly influenced by waves of political, social and economic.
Medicine is both a science and profession. As science, intellectual activity is oriented towards the creation, transmission and systematization of medical knowledge, as a profession, its main commitment is to serve society through the efficient application of expertise in the framework of its moral purpose, his ethical imperative and a rigorous self-regulation.
The contemporary social organization and new ways of delivering health services introduced profound changes in medical practice and create new conditions such as rupture of the doctor-patient relationship, the emergence of the patient as a customer or consumer and the complex implications a new social contract. From traditional patterns of medical practice liberal, medicine becomes a form of external administration, a medical practice in corporate, dominated economic factors in health care.
Academic excellence in the supreme goal of the faculty of medicine, which is a public service corporation to be a good doctor, who in turn is a social instrument.
Medical education is a continuum that seeks to integrate cost-efficient and cost-effective for the years it takes training to a doctor and providing a foundation of information and intellectual tools to turn the student in student life, in a buyer permanent knowledge. This requires the full development of his ability to handle scientific information and strengthen critical thinking, so that the curriculum should include cybernetics and computer science as a pedagogical method for self-continuous. Biomedical informatics, understood as knowledge management, is the new epistemology and the base of the new pedagogy in medical schools.
