Percy Mayta-Tristán
open science
Lima, 1981. Research Director of the Scientific University of the South. San Fernandino doctor, RENACYT researcher, university professor, scientific editor, aquarist, cat dad and Daniel’s life partner. He has more than 100 scientific publications in Scopus, member of the SciELO Peru Committee.
“The University Law and the licensing process at the institutional level have meant an improvement for Peruvian universities and have contributed to the increase in scientific production, with the process for medicine the same is expected to happen.”
In 2003, the Peruvian Association of Faculties of Medicine (ASPEFAM) implemented the national medical exam (ENAM) to assess the skills of future doctors. A recent study (Mendoza-Chuctaya et al.) analyzed the results of the last decade and found that one in three future doctors did not pass the ENAM and in 7 universities more than 50% of their graduates were disapproved.
For this reason, the Medical Association of Peru implemented the ENAM in 2019 as a requirement to join the association, and previously the Minsa had also included it as a condition to perform the Serums. Unfortunately, the Minsa never made it effective and the Indecopi at the end of 2021 stated that approving the ENAM was a bureaucratic barrier. Unfortunately, for Indecopi, quality is a bureaucratic barrier.
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Just as universities had institutional licensing by Sunedu, medical schools are also going through this process. To date, 7 medical schools are already licensed, 10 have been requested an adaptation plan (that is, they did not meet the basic quality conditions) and 18 are in the evaluation process.
Sunedu warned this week that the university counter-reform being carried out by Congress, without much opposition from the Executive, may affect the medical school licensing process; which is necessary to guarantee an adequate training of doctors from Peruvian universities.
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The University Law and the licensing process at the institutional level have meant an improvement for Peruvian universities and have contributed to the increase in scientific production. The same is expected to happen with the process for medicine. The laws are perfectible, but the changes must be to increase quality, not to lower the fence and deregulate the system. #LaReformaSeDefiende.