Through Caem, Abem is promoting the evaluation of change trends in Brazilian Medical Schools in order to build up an evaluation process capable of diagnosing each school's moment and following-up its development attaining to its mission, which is improving the health care provided to the Brazilian population. This project tool presents seventeen directions distributed over five axles relevant for medical education. One of these is the Pedagogical Approach which focuses building and following-up methods to identify the teaching - learning process and evaluation. Is the pedagogical approach student - centered, or teacher - centered? Are tutorials present? The schools can then be classified as traditional, innovative or advanced.
Medical education; program evaluation; preceptorship; curriculum; methodology
