Hablar de la calidad de la educacion medica es hablar de la competencia de los medicos que forma una determinada escuela, entendida esta competencia como la suma de las adaptaciones de la practica al conjunto de circunstancias sociales especiales, que ocurren dentro de las barreras situacionales de una dada profesion -la medicina en este caso. La evidencia de esta competencia se produce en el desempeno profesional y la evaluacion de este desempeno solo puede ser hecha despues de la graduacion, en el ambiente concreto de la practica medica. En relacion a la calificacion de la institucion docente este ejercicio seria de tipo retrospectivo por lo menos para el medico que este siendo evaluado y tendria un valor discutible; por otro lado, para la institucion en si, tampoco seria suficiente por no tomar en cuenta los componentes de prestacion de servicios y de investigacion, los cuales son igualmente parte del quehacer de la escuela o facultad (AU).

Africa is rich in both natural and human resources, yet nearly 200 million of its people are undernourished because of inadequate food supplies. Comprehensive strategies are needed across the continent to harness the power of science and technology (S&T) in ways that boost agricultural productivity, profitability, and sustainability -- ultimately ensuring that all Africans have access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs. This report addresses the question of how science and technology can be mobilized to make that promise a reality.

For fans of Julia Buckley and Tess Gerritsen, a debut featuring a killer in plain sight using a microscopic murder weapon, the cutting edge gene-editing technology: CRISPR. Boston geneticist Dr. Saul Kramer is on the cutting edge of genetic disease research. Revered among clients at his IVF clinic, he harbors a dark secret. In addition to helping infertile couples conceive healthy babies, Dr. Kramer is obsessed, for his own dark reasons, with an alternate mission as well. In certain patients, he uses the gene editing technology CRISPR to tamper with embryos, not to improve the health of the embryos, but to replace a healthy gene with a deadly mutation. A young female journalist, Sammie Fuller, begins to suspect what he has done when three infants conceived at his clinic die mysteriously, all at about one year old. She and a molecular biologist work secretly in his MIT lab to identify any genetic defects in the deceased children and together make a chilling discovery. Thanks to Sammie’s blockbuster stories, which go viral, Dr. Kramer is charged with murder and winds up in court. In the subsequent dramatic court scenes, his feisty defense lawyer stuns the world with her defense. Set in this uneasy time of genetic engineering with CRISPR technology, Foreman, spins a compelling tale of love, revenge, and murder.