La actividad de la tutoría en las carreras de las ciencias médicas

Tutorship in the current High Education develops in a flexible way, and is adjusted to every one of the students, according to their personality, interests, knowledge, skills, difficulties level and advances. It is an educational system that, while pays attention to the student’s personal characteristics in an individual way, behaves inside a system of collective education, rendering  contribution to the comprehensive  training  of the students.  In this academic way, the tutor plays an integrative role, because he is the one who carries out the man-to-man work for the sake of training a health professional with a human conception able of affronting the challenges of the modern society. Besides that, he is the main stone in the professional training, and therefore has to exert a whole of educative and training influences to make the student to develop skills, habits and values that are essential in his training. The objective of this paper is to assess tutorship in High Education, making emphasis in medical education.