University management, and mainly that of the undergraduate medical school, has not been an issue recognized and valued by the academic community. However, medical formation depends largely on good management practices. This turns even more relevant when the school is undergoing changes. This essay addresses nine topics related to management from a critical and self-critical viewpoint: 1. Medical self-sufficiency; 2. The administrative and academic dichotomy; 3. The primacy of last-minute solutions over strategies; 4. Continuing education of teachers; 5. Lack of skills to form and maintain work teams.; 6. Incomplete partnerships; 7. Multi-professional teaching; 8. Networking; 9. Weak theoretic production. This analysis aims at contributing to better perspectives for the medical school and for the work of its current and future managers.
Medical Education; Health education; Personal Management