Institutional reorganization associated to curricular changes in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile

The model of medical education of the Faculty of of Medicine of the University of Chile Is being subjected to important changes. These changes are required to introduce new teaching methodologies and new curricular contents to prepare professionals suited to the needs of the XXI Century. Complex universities need to modify their academic behavior and administrative management, to become competitive with the new universities that proliferate, with drastic changes ill play rules and expectancies to accomplish their aims. Universities must reorganize and modify their structures to avoid becoming obsolete ii? the exercise of teaching and other academic options. The transformations of the Faculty of Medicine rare good examples of the resources that have to be mobilized and the organisms that must be adapted to obtain changes that will improve academic efficiency. The continuous assessment of its functioning will establish the usefulness of adopted changes and the need for rectification.