Este trabajo reúne la experiencia y la reflexión de uno de los académicos que se ha destacado por tener acceso, producir información y tomar decisiones muy interesantes sobre lo que ha pasado en los últimos años en la ciencia, la docencia universitaria y la evolución de la medicina en México. Aparte nos ofrece trabajos alrededor de los tres grandes rubros que se entrelazan en las correspondientes tres partes que dan cuerpo al libro: el quehacer científico en México; la relación entre la ciencia y la universidad; y la encrucijada actual de la medicina.

Los autores de este texto tienen treinta y cinco años de experiencia docente en este campo, y este libro refleja la profundidad de dicha experiencia. Los autores has presenciado y estudiado la expansión de la literatura en este campo, y la han sintetizado en este texto. La contribución directa que los autores presentan es la distinción de las teorías de educación que son de aplicación práctica de aquellas que no los son en el campo de la educación ambulatoria. En este texto ellos presentan también un listado de referencias claves en el campo de la educación médica.

Containing papers carefully compiled for both their historical importance and contemporary relevance, Family Medicine: The Classic Papers brings together a team of experts, led by global family medicine leaders Michael Kidd, Iona Heath and Amanda Howe, who explain the importance of each selected paper and how it contributes to international health care, current practice and research. The papers demonstrate the broad scope of primary health care delivered by family doctors around the world, showcasing some of the most important research ever carried out in family medicine and primary care. This unique volume will serve as an inspiration to current family doctors and family medicine researchers and educators, as well as to doctors in training, medical students and emerging researchers in family medicine.

This Research Topic is the second volume of the "Community Series In Mental-Health-Related Stigma and Discrimination: Prevention, Role, and Management Strategies". Please see the first volume here. Despite the tremendous progress and successes achieved in diagnostics, therapy, and rehabilitation in psychiatry over the past few decades, the stigma towards mental health patients, their relatives and caregivers, and healthcare professionals is still present. Social stigma, in particular, represents a major obstacle to maintaining adequate mental health care. This increases reluctance to seek help delays patients' diagnosis and limits their compliance and adherence to treatment. In the long term, this reduces psychiatric rehabilitation effectiveness and causes a burden to healthcare providers and society alike. The main goal of this Research Topic is to evaluate the impact and role of stigma, in all its forms, on individuals with psychiatric disorders, their caregivers, and mental health providers.