[The changing situation of pediatric training in medical school]

We review the change produced in pediatric training in the last few years. To unify teaching criteria in the European Union, a minimum of 2 years practical training after the 6 years of undergraduate education were introduced. The number of students is not equally distributed among the 30 faculties with pediatrics departments. This number should be adapted to health requirements and teaching capacity and evaluation should be improved. Among the teaching staff, training, methodology and teaching hours should continue to be brought up to date. Student self-learning should be stimulated. "Clinician-teachers" still predominate, followed by "teacher-researchers" and a smaller number of "teacher-clinician-researchers". We recommend better evaluation of teacher training and teaching ability. The program aims at state, and even European, unification and emphasizes primary care and the implementation of new methods. It also gives greater prominence to social, preventive and adolescent pediatrics, child psychology and the normal child.