Introduction:

The national curricular guidelines for medical courses encourage generalist training for doctors, changing the fragmented training paradigm that existed up until the last century. Medical residency is considered complementary to undergraduate training, but without sufficient vacancies to meet the demand, competition is generated among students. At the same time, academic leagues have gained presence within medical schools.

Development:

This essay presents a critical analysis of the relationship between specialty medical societies and academic leagues, and the effects of this relationship on medical training. Specialty societies encourage the creation of academic leagues, and reserve spaces dedicated to them. In this way, they approach students through the leagues and reenter the undergraduate course in the form of a parallel curriculum, having previously been relegated to the background by the generalist training program.

Conclusion:

There is a movement of approximation between leagues and specialty societies, which must be monitored and reflected on closely and critically to ensure that students are not deprived of the freedom to explore different realities of medical practice and medical specialties, and to safeguard the pedagogical proposal of medical training from being subverted.

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