Dear Dr Reyes Fuentes, I appreciate your invitation to comment on the letter to the publisher regarding my article.
In fact, I agree we have too many schools when what we really need are better schools and doctors. The problem with this proliferation of schools is that there is no control about who authorises the opening and functioning of those higher education institutions, which has made the opening of a school of medicine a very lucrative business, regardless the quality of the graduates. What we need in this country is a serious study to assess the existing schools, close those which do not comply with international standards, choose the candidates for studying medicine more carefully, and check the training of graduates. The publication of the results would be very important. In that way we could know which entities allow poorly trained doctors to graduate, which would also offer the candidates a better option to know where to study.
The certification of general practitioners is desirable, but since it is not mandatory, very few doctors achieve it.
Please cite this article as: Cervantes-Castro J. “Urge un Abraham Flexner en México”, publicado en Cirugía y Cirujanos. 2014;82:473–475. Cir Cir. 2015;83:360.