Although there is a recognized need for changes in medical teaching, professors have shown resistance to modifications. This review identifies the factors that limit changes in the teaching practice in medicine. Among the identified factors we emphasize the depreciation of the teaching activities and supremacy of research, the lack of professional identity, the deficient pedagogic education of the medical teacher, the resistance of the teaching body to changes and the individualism of university professors. It is necessary to stimulate permanent professional development of medicine professors as an instrument of re-creation and transformation of the teaching practice.
Health Education; Education Medical; Faculty, Medical