Social medicine service of undergraduate medicine students in the Hospitalary Donation Coordination area of the Mexican Institute of Social Security

Abstract

The cadaveric or donor-related transplant is a worldwide priority program. In México, are scarce the human hospitalary resources primarily assigned to issues about donation and transplant; In our country, recent legal changes permit that undergraduate medicine students under University linking programs can be integrated on activities that warranty a social profit, as the hospitalary donation coordination of the Mexican Institute of Seguro Social . This is a proposal with legal framework, based in experiences of the Barcelona‘s Hospital Clínic i Provincial , that integrate Undergraduate Medicine Students as a 24 hours available´s monitor into the Hospitalary Donation Coordination area of the Mexican Institute of Social Security. During social service stage, undergraduate medical students can benefit their community optimizing the hospital organ donation potential for transplant.