[The reorientation of medical education]

The article is based on the prospective analysis approach to medical education. The instrument of analysis is a questionnaire on the medical education process and on the professional training institution, in which a series of indicators can be used that are grouped in four categories: context, structure, function, and integration. The article concludes with an enumeration of the basic principles to be borne in mind in planning, and with a scheme for the organization of a medical school suitable for attaining the goal of health for all.