This work investigates, through a comparative approach, the process of curricular reform of the courses offered by two medical schools in Brazil and Argentina, namely, the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). We avail ourselves, as our starting point, of the Latin American higher education reforms and their discussions in the educational area. Our objective is to identify a set of tensions that manifests itself between the particular cultures of university organization, the desire for the uniformity of globalization and the quest for bureaucratic control derived from the regionalization of the Mercosur. Both countries are undergoing deep reform of their educational systems, articulated with the neoliberal policies of economic reform and the reduction of the role of the State in their respective societies. However, although there are formal similarities in several respects, the results of the analysis of the Brazilian and Argentinean realities reveal differences that should not be neglected.
Medical education; higher education; curriculum; medical schools