Objectives: To determine changes and innovations in teaching on violence at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima, Peru, from 2005 until academic year 2011, time in which diverse coordinations with academic and faculty authorities were done to improve teaching on violence. Design: Descriptive, transversal and analytical study of syllabi. Institution: Faculty of Medicine, UNMSM, Lima, Peru. Material: Syllabi. Methodology: In year 2012, 79 selected syllabi corresponding to academic year 2011 of the five schools of the Faculty of Medicine were studied. Main outcome measures: Changes and innovations in violence contents. Results: There was increment in contents on teaching of violence in selected syllabi from 30/81 (37%) in year 2005 to 58/79 (73.4%) in year 2011. In the School of Medicine increase was from 47% to 89.4%, in the School of Midwifery fr...