Background: This article emerges as part of a process led by the National Academy of Medicine of Peru closely with other Latin American Academies of Medicine, and major universities and health-related professionals. Objective: To describe and substantiate the importance of the Person Centered Medicine (CCM) in the Latin American context. Methodology: Review articles and Latin American experiences on the subject, engaging in academic meetings to discuss related content, two preliminary in Lima in December 2013 and January 2014, third in Buenos Aires, regarding the 2nd International Congress of Medicine Centered Person with the presence of the Academies of Medicine, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru (November 2014) and fourth in Lima, Meeting of the Academy of Medicine of Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay and Peru (December 2014). Results: historical and contemporary, universal and local...