[Plea in favor of an adapted medical education]

Many decolonized countries have adopted the medical syllabusis of the former Empire metropolis. But they did not make them suitable to their peculiarities, their economical constraints and their socio-economical structures. Such a copying of foreign patterns, tailored for industrialized countries, is full of set-backs: technological dependency, limited profitability, inadequacy of the coverage of sanitary needs, lack of dynamism and creativeness. Indeed, it is to be desired that a number of new guidances be given concerning: targets: definition of missions and criteria of competence in order to make clear the targets to be reached by the medical education, programmes: horizontal integration of syllabusis, multidisciplinarity, team-work preparation, priority to preventive and community health programmes, methodology: utilization of an active and "next-to-reality" pedagogy incitement of students to participate (discussion groups), formative teaching instead of selective one, non-stop control of progress.