Regulation of Social Service for Medicine in Mexico, more than 80 Years after its Implementation

Abstract

In Mexico, social service is an indispensable requirement to obtain both the title and professional license to practice medicine. Since 1935, Lic. Gustavo Baz Prada presented the first social service initiative for the career of medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Currently, social service in medicine is based on various regulations. These include the 3rd and 5th articles of the Political Constitution of the United States of Mexico, as well as various general state laws and internal codes of medical schools and faculties. The general and state laws include the General Health Law, the 5th article of the Regulatory Law of the Constitutional, and in Oaxaca specifically, articles 7, 14, 24 and 27 of the Law of Professions of the State of Oaxaca. Although it is an area that seems well regulated, there is a lack of consensus regarding updates to this legislation, so as to adapt it to the sociopolitical and economic circumstances of our time.
Along with this adaptation of the regulations, the creation of new regulatory bodies of the social service should be sought. This would restructure the way in which social service for the Bachelor of Medicine in the country is carried out, and achieve better benefits for the Mexican population.