Objectives: To identify a Peruvian Faculty of Medicine students’ perception on training in health promotion. Design: Quantitative-qualitative study. Institution: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Participants: Faculty of Medicine’s five academic professional schools penultimate year students. Interventions: Two data collection techniques -an interview with a modified Lickert questionnaire and focus group- were applied to 127 students. Main outcome measures: Quantification of the students’ perception on their training on health promotion strategies in relation to Ottawa’s Letter proposition on health promotion. Results: The students’ perception on their health promotion strategies training was moderately favorable, with tendency to be quite favorable in two them: School of Nursing in creating supportive environments for health and strengt...

Following the thinking of some authors, this paper has the purpose to stimulate health professionals both reflection and discussion on daily practice implications of technical advances and the role of ethics as regulator of these advances. We also wish to analyse changes in the relations between professionals and health services persons/clients, from the point of view of biotechnology. We propose this analysis in order to incorporate in our daily practice ethics for life, liberty for better living, honoring both nature and human dignity.