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PubMed2005

[75th anniversary of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Medicine].

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile founded its School of Medicine in 1930, preceded by the Schools of Medicine of the University of Chile (founded in 1833) and the University of Concepción (founded in 1924). The founders of the new School were prominent members of the Catholic Church, advised by distinguished Chilean physicians and scientists, most of them already full Professors at the University of Chile. During the first decades, only a small number of full-time faculties could be recruited and the academic team included mostly part-time teachers, generally shared with the already established Medical Schools, as well as practising physicians with little or no previous teaching experience. Along 75 years of fruitful existence, this Medical School has evolved to become one of the leading organizations in graduate and post-graduate medical education in Latin America, with high standards in teaching methodology and a superb productivity in clinical and biomedical research. The history of this Medical School stands as an example to the currently nascent Medical Schools founded by private universities in Chile. The standards of high quality medical education should be maintained for the well-being of our population so that these new Medical Schools can become respected and accepted as peers by the entire community of Chilean Universities.

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PubMed1992

[Andres Bello and the origins of the University of Chile].

During colonial times the Royal University of San Felipe was founded in 1738. The first plan for medical studies was outlined in 1779. During the Independence, the National Institute created in 1813 took over higher education. The first Course of Medicine was dictated there in 1833. The University of San Felipe was replaced by the University of Chile in 1842. Andrés Bello, its first Rector, developed the constituting laws of the University.

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PubMed1994

[Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the School of Public Health of the University of Chile].

The joined initiative of the University of Chile, the Health institutions, the Bacteriological Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation support allowed the creation of the School of Public Health. A group of skilled and talented young specialists gave rise to the School, as an expression of the need to refurbish the medical care of the forties. The aim of the School was to communicate the scientific basis of sanitary practice, to study national problems and to group people that can contribute to improve the health status of the country. During fifty years, the number of Chilean and foreign students expanded considerably. During these five decades the School has trained 1588 specialists (459 foreigners) in Public Health. The School was awarded by WHO in 1988 in recognition of its outstanding contributions to Public Health. It is difficult to make adequate decisions at the present time, due to the complexity of Chilean health situation, that is going through an epidemiological and demographic transition. A systematic effort to investigate and to train people in public health and health administration is mandatory. These are the principal tasks of the School, that maintains its fifty years tradition left by its founders.

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PubMed2000

[Licensure in the practice of the medical profession in Chile: experience of the Re-valuation Committee of the Medical School of the University of Chile period 1984-1999].

We report the experience of the re-valuation committee of the University of Chile Medical School, in the period 1984-1999. This experience is relevant to the licensing processes in Latin America. We report the political, legal and regulatory backup and the academic criteria used to establish different evaluation methodologies. We also communicate the main results obtained. Factors such as the country and University conferring a title, nationality and length of service of the applicant, influence in the percentage of licensure examination approval. Some modifications to the licensure process should be incorporated but, the overall results obtained, fully justify the existence of this licensure committee.

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PubMed2003

[Congenital malformations of the digestive system. Maternity Clinical Hospital at the University of Chile. 1991-2001].

BACKGROUND: There were 26,617 births attended at the University of Chile Clinical Hospital, of which 0.63% were stillborn. A frequency of malformations of 7.2 per born alive and of 22.1 per stillborn was detected in this population. AIM: To report the frequency of digestive system congenital malformations in this population. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Analysis of data from the births that occurred at the University of Chile Hospital, that was gathered using codified form for the Latin American Collaborative Study for Congenital Malformations. RESULTS: Ninety seven digestive congenital malformations were detected, with a rate of 26.4 per 10,000 born alive and 12.2 per 10,000 stillborn. Diaphragmatic hernia was the most frequent malformation found, followed by imperforated anus, onphalocele and esophageal atresia. There was a secular increase in the frequency of these malformations. CONCLUSIONS: The frequency of digestive system malformations is higher than in the rest of hospitals participating in the Latin American Collaborative Study for Congenital Malformations.

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PubMed1992

[Andres Bello and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile].

Andrés Bello, the first Rector of the University of Chile (1843) was a great supporter of the development of Medicine. In 1842 he said that the Faculty should pay special attention to diseases that were prevalent in Chile, and provide information to the Government concerning public hygiene and related matters. The Faculty of Medicine was one of the first 5 Faculties. It was integrated by academic members including 6 Europeans, T Armstrong, G Blest, N Cox, J Lafargue, L Sazie and 2 Chileans, L Ballester and F J Tocornal. The first Dean was the french surgeon and obstetrician Lorenzo Sazie.

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PubMed1990

[Informatics in the School of Medicine of the University of Chile. I. Origin and evolution of biomedical computing in Chile].

In the sixties and seventies, the School of Medicine of the University of Chile was the first Chilean institution to incorporate computers into academic endeavors through its own Computer Center. Later, professors were marginated from policy making, which became oriented to administrative goals, but they compensated that situation with the easy access to personal computers brought about by present technology. In 1986, when School authorities were again elected by the faculty staff, professors were able to participate again in a committee designing projects in this area. Current development at the School of Medicine include a proliferation of personal computers, the implementation of a computer network with access to medical data bases, and a growing number of applications in the fields of research and teaching. In the near future, due to the accessibility of telecommunications and computers, these advancements should have an impact on the whole biomedical community, a situation that would restore, after many years, the traditional role of the University of Chile in the life of the country.

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PubMed1997

[Essential aspects of the reorganization of medical education at the University of Chile School of Medicine].

The Medical School of the University of Chile is enforcing deep transformations in its curricular setting, to cope with the physician model of the next century. It is following the universal trends that look for new objectives, methodologies, scenarios and resources in medical teaching. These goals should be accomplished very soon, allowing the School to be in the lead of curricular transformations. These changes have overflowed the limits of curricular renovation and a process of institutional reorganisation is aiming to increase its efficacy and yield. The bases of this reorganisation are the search for excellency, the renovation of academic staff with the incorporation of better trained professionals, the integration of basic and clinical disciplines in coherent programmatic proposals and the configuration of structures to organise and articulate medical knowledge. Optimisation of education has also extra-institutional implications with the establishment of accreditation systems for professionals and educational institutions. These systems are mandatory world wide and guarantee the capability of educational institutions and their products. The School of Medicine is committed in this achievement along with the Association of Medical Schools and The Superior Education Council.

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PubMed1998

[Contribution of Professor Armando Roa to humanities and medical ethics at the University of Chile's School of Medicine].

Dr. Roa was the first professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile to give an ethics course to medical students, even when the importance of formal teaching of medical ethics was not yet recognized internationally. His efforts contributed to the creation of the Center for Bioethical and Humanistic Studies in 1988 and to the creation of official ethics courses for first and sixth year medical students in 1993. During 20 years, be chaired the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile. He also promoted a diffusion program about medical ethics through meetings, conferences and symposia. He was responsible for the Ministry of Health's decision to create ethics committees in public hospitals in 1988 and for the Presidental decision about organ transplantation in 1995. He carried out anthropology courses and gave numerous lectures on humanistic aspects of medicine. His ethical principles are resumed in what he called the "ethics of generosity", in which the dignity of human beings is respected above all, in his opinion, the way civilizations see goodwill has been preponderant in the course of history. The recent proposal to teach humanistic fundamentals to medical students is a tribute to the memory of Professor Roa.

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PubMed1995

[Presumptive organ donations for transplants agreement of the Ethics Committee of the University of Chile Medical School].

The ethics committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile was consulted about the ethical aspects of presumptive organ donation for transplantation. After analyzing the problem, the committee concluded that every human being has the right to make use of his organs freely, voluntarily and according to his own discernment. The society has no right to make obligatory this donation, even after death. The foundations of this agreement were laid in a series of reasons. In fact, the corpse is not a juridical but a ethical asset and deserves respect for whom it was. It cannot be commercialized and is the only non-religious object susceptible of profanation. It is also object of popular affective and religious manifestations. Beliefs and affects must be respected. Organ donation is an act of charity and cannot be compulsory. The organ donation consent must be explicit, voluntary and solemn.

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PubMed1998

[Institutional reorganization associated to curricular changes in the School of Medicine of the University of Chile].

The model of medical education of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile is being subjected to important changes. These changes are required to introduce new teaching methodologies and new curricular contents to prepare professionals suited to the needs of the XXI Century. Complex universities need to modify their academic behavior and administrative management, to become competitive with the new universities that proliferate, with drastic changes in play rules and expectancies to accomplish their aims. Universities must reorganize and modify their structures to avoid becoming obsolete in the exercise of teaching and other academic options. The transformations of the Faculty of Medicine are good examples of the resources that have to be mobilized and the organisms that must be adapted to obtain changes that will improve academic efficiency. The continuous assessment of its functioning will establish the usefulness of adopted changes and the need for rectification.

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