Background: In the quest for excellence in medical education, regulations and accreditation standards emerge as beacons guiding the path to higher quality and competency at the national level. This study investigates their impact on changes in national knowledge examination performance among Peruvian medical trainees. Methods: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach was employed, beginning with a quantitative longitudinal analysis of data from the Peruvian Association for Medical Education database covering 45 medical schools from 2005 to 2023. Descriptive statistics were used to examine data trends; mixed-effects regression models were utilized to account for the nested structure of the data, allowing for a nuanced understanding of the standards’ impact over time and across different institutional contexts. To complement the quantitative findings, qualitative interviews were c...

Los trasplantes cardíacos son el tratamiento de elección para pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca severa refractaria a tratamiento médico. Al 2020, el Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular “Carlos Alberto Peschiera Carrillo” es el único centro que realiza estos procedimientos en el Perú. Sin embargo, no hay mucha producción científica sobre estos y resulta esencial la elaboración de un perfil clínico-quirúrgico de estos pacientes. Por ello, investigación realizada describe las características clínico-quirúrgicas de los trasplantes cardíacos en el Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular “Carlos Alberto Peschiera Carrillo” 1993 - 2019. Realiza un estudio observacional, descriptivo, transversal y retrospectivo. La población fue el total de trasplantes cardíacos realizados en el Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular “Carlos Alberto Peschiera Carrillo” desde 1993 al 2019, con...

Introduction. Aggressive and discriminatory behavior affects physical and mental health even on those who commit them. Students are subjected to stress, which increases the risk of those behaviors and makes them likely to suffer from its consequences. On the other hand, the Medical School aims to educate medical professionals integrally, with abilities to avoid violence and live peacefully. That is why the interest of describing this problem in Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru’s Medical School. Objective. To address violence in students from the sixth year of Human Medicine who had not participated in the Integral Formation Program in UNMSM. Design: Descriptive, transversal study. Setting. "Instituto Nacional del Niño", Lima, Peru, teaching hospital. Participants. Sample consisted in 93 (63%) students enrolled in the sixth year of the Faculty of Medicine who took t...