[Teaching of pediatrics within the plan of studies for general medicine (plan A-36)]

In this article the author exposes some of the bases about the instruction program of General Integral Medicine (plan A-36); also, he compares the teaching aspects of pediatrics of this plan and the traditional plan, both carried out at the medical School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The author points out the best distribution of the pediatric aspects through the medical curriculum, which results in more effective teaching hours, besides, the application of the most current pedagogic and didactic technics in Plan A-36. Also the pediatric clinical practice is performed in more appropriate places and the relation between practice and theory shows more adequate equilibrium than the traditional plan.