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DIAZ-VELIS MARTINEZ, Esther; RAMOS RAMIREZ, Ramiro  e  MENDOZA RODRIGUEZ, Cristina. A necessary claim, the integration of contents in the medical career. Educ Med Super [online]. 2005, vol.19, n.1, pp. 1-1. ISSN 0864-2141.

The present increase of the scientific information places the subjects in the dilemma between approaching even more specific aspects of a part of reality, or conceiving knowledge in a comprehensive and essential way. The need of the integration and pertinence of the contents is stated to contribute to the attainment of a professional of wide profile in the medical career. To this end, the curricular organization requires a formative process with horizontal and vertical integration allowing to materialize such aspiration. It is stressed the importance of transcending the frame of the subject or discipline by the horizontal integration at a certain moment and the development of the student in the course of time by vertical integration. Examples of both integrations are given to achieve their curricular implementation. The teaching task, the integrating teaching activities, the students' research and the posing of professional problems are among the alternatives to face this challenge. All this requires a methodological work at the level of subject, year and career.

Palavras-chave : Teaching-learning process; subject; medical education.