La docencia en medicina centrada en el estudiante, con publicaciones periódicas

the group dynamics strategy permitted that 77 students from the regular tropical medicine course during a four year period, carry out an assay about teaching medicine centered on the student, by means of participating and writing medical papers published in indexed medical journals. twenty one papers were published: four on clinical investigation, thirteen reviews and four on teaching investigation, with 27 students participating as authors. for the publication of the mentioned papers, 823 references were revised: 20 % corresponded to venezuelan authors and 80% were from other countries. participating in this experience permitted to the students the practice of capacities and skills related to reference revision applied to writing medical papers. teaching medicine means also, learning how to publish the data generated during clinical and the teaching practices. the aim was to describe, analyze and evaluate a teaching experience in the tropical medicine department.